A Porcelain Easter Egg
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A Porcelain Easter Egg

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1850-1860

Fermé29 November 2010

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A Porcelain Easter Egg
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1850-1860
Ovoid, one side centering an oval panel painted with the Madonna and Child with John the Baptist in a landscape background, within a pearl guilloché ciselé border, the reverse with a gilt ciselé chalice encircled by the Crown of Thorns below a dove, both radiating gilt beams, apparently unmarked
4¼ in. (11 cm.) high

Note du spécialiste

An egg with a nearly identical gilt ciselé reverse, the front depicting St Alexander Nevskii, is illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 172, No. 134. The miniature of St Alexander Nevskii is signed 'P.D.' in Cyrillic and dates to the 1870s.