Lot Essay
A comparable Easter egg of similar size and design is on view in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg (inv. mz-i-2082).
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BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
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A LARGE AND RARE PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
Ovoid, decorated with five reserves depicting the Nativity, Mother of God Orans, Archangels and Mother of God Enthroned, within gilt cartouches, the upper and lower parts of the egg decorated with fine gold foliage on matt silver ground, with red lozenges simulating rubies, probably after a design by O. Chirikov, apparently unmarked
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1890
Ovoid, decorated with five reserves depicting the Nativity, Mother of God Orans, Archangels and Mother of God Enthroned, within gilt cartouches, the upper and lower parts of the egg decorated with fine gold foliage on matt silver ground, with red lozenges simulating rubies, probably after a design by O. Chirikov, apparently unmarked
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
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