Lot Essay
For a similar egg, see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 52, no. 16. For another similar egg, see Exhibition Catalogue, Imperial Easter Eggs: a Collection of Porcelain Easter Eggs from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, the Royal Danish Collections at Amalienborg Palace and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Copenhagen, 1994, p. 106, no. 93.