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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
Lot 330 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880S

Closed25 November 2013

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GBP 3,000

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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1880s
Ovoid, the front and back of the brown glazed body painted and impressed with the gilt ciselé cypher of the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna beneath an Imperial crown, with geometric gilt ciselé apertures, unmarked
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similarly decorated egg with blue ground, see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 36, no. 3.