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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
Lot 301

A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1800

Closed6 June 2011

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GBP 4,000

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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1800
Ovoid, the sides centring a roundel finely painted with a landscape, within a gilt ciselé border, on cobalt blue ground, the sides with ciselé stylised flowers and leaves, unmarked
2¾ in. (6.7 cm.) high

Specialist note

A comparable porcelain egg is illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva, exhibition catalogue, The Royal Danish Collections and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, 1994, no. 3, p. 47.