Two Porcelain Easter Eggs

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900-1910

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Two Porcelain Easter Eggs
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1900-1910
Each ovoid, one with stylised foliate strapwork encircling purple and green flowerheads on white ground with gilt borders, the aperture painted with a maroon shaped triangle, the other with blue ground, the front painted with stylised maroon flower flanked with stylised shooting stems and flowerheads with gilt heightening, the aperture painted with gilt star border, both unmarked
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

A porcelain egg with similar stylised floral decoration painted in pastels on blue ground produced by the Imperial Porcelain Factory between 1900 and 1917 is illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 264, No. 220.

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