A GROUP OF SEVENTEEN RUSSIAN PORCELAIN EASTER EGGS
Lot 522

A GROUP OF SEVENTEEN RUSSIAN PORCELAIN EASTER EGGS

SOME BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed20 October 2023

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A GROUP OF SEVENTEEN RUSSIAN PORCELAIN EASTER EGGS
SOME BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Variously decorated with flowers, geometric motifs, and birds, one with the gilt and pink crowned cypher of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, most on ribbons for hanging, apparently unmarked;
Together with four modern porcelain eggs, three signed 'SJ.98'
4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) high, the largest

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 June 1998, lot 259 (five eggs).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 December 1998, lots 129, 131, and 133 (three eggs).
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.