Three Porcelain Easter Eggs

Nearly identical examples of white ground eggs with the gilt cyphers of Nicholas II, Alexei Nikolaevich and Alexandra Feodorovna are illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 61, Nos. 27 & 28, and p. 68, No. 36. Similar eggs are held in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory Museum, St Petersburg, and the State History Musuem, Moscow. These eggs were primarily produced as Easter gifts for soldiers at the front and in hospitals during the First World War.