Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
Lot 335 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III

A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1830-1840S

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 3,750

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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1830-1840s
Ovoid, centring an oval panel depicting Saint Nicholas holding a gospel, within a gilt ciselé border, the reverse with gilt ciselé starburst, unmarked
3¾ in (9.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar egg, see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 101, no. 63. For another 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. 129, no. 110.