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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
Lot 280 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART II

A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1860-1880S

Closed2 June 2014

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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1860-1880s
Ovoid, centring an oval panel depicting Saint Vera in prayer, within a gilt border, the turquoise reverse decorated with ciselé gilt foliage and rocaille arches, unmarked
4¼ in. (10.6 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar egg, see Imperial Easter Eggs: a Collection of Porcelain Easter Eggs from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, the Royal Danish Collections at Amalienborg Palace and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, 1994, p. 78, no. 53.