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BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, CIRCA 1890
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A porcelain Easter egg
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, circa 1890
Ovoid, one side painted with Saint Alexei the Wonderworker Metropolitan of Moscow with gilt details, with a view of Moscow in the background, in an oval green border with black and gilt foliate berries and flowerheads, the reverse with similar border containing a gilt and brown cross with roundels of the Deisis and angels above and below, on pink and coral lattice ground, with purple arabesques and gilt, white and blue flowerheads on pale yellow ground between, apparently unmarked, with later brown shot green ribbon
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, circa 1890
Ovoid, one side painted with Saint Alexei the Wonderworker Metropolitan of Moscow with gilt details, with a view of Moscow in the background, in an oval green border with black and gilt foliate berries and flowerheads, the reverse with similar border containing a gilt and brown cross with roundels of the Deisis and angels above and below, on pink and coral lattice ground, with purple arabesques and gilt, white and blue flowerheads on pale yellow ground between, apparently unmarked, with later brown shot green ribbon
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high
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