Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
A GROUP OF THREE PORCELAIN EASTER EGGS
Lot 361 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III

A GROUP OF THREE PORCELAIN EASTER EGGS

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1913-1917

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 4,375

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A GROUP OF THREE PORCELAIN EASTER EGGS
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1913-1917
All ovoid, three white eggs, one painted with the gilt ciselé cypher of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, one painted and impressed with the gilt ciselé cypher of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, one painted with the gilt ciselé cypher of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna; all cyphers beneath the Imperial crown, unmarked
2½ in. (6.5 cm.) high and smaller

Specialist note

For nearly identical eggs, see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, pp. 58-61, 67-68, no. 24, 26, 27, 35, 36. For other similar models, see G. Oistrakh and A. Tishchenko, Imperatorskie Farforovye Paskhalnye Iajtsa, Moscow, 2008, pp. 71-[72], 80, no. 17, 26.