Two Porcelain Easter Eggs

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890

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Two Porcelain Easter Eggs
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1890
Each ovoid, the front of one painted with stylised scrolling foliage entwining a deep purple strapwork framed cartouche with gilt ciselé interior, the reverse with similar motif in the shape of a lozenge on blue ground, the other painted with blue tracery frieze centred by a gilt ciselé cross and enclosing pink flowerheads with stylised leaves, both unmarked
3½ in. (9 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

A similarly designed egg with stylised strapwork on blue ground produced by the Imperial Porcelain Factory in the 1890s is illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 253, No. 200.

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