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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
Lot 275 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART IV

A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1850-1860S

Closed1 June 2015

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A PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1850-1860s
Ovoid, centring an oval panel depicting Saint Sergei of Radonezh, wearing a black monk’s garb, within a gilt ciselé border, inscribed in black in Russian above the miniature ‘Sv. Sergii.’, the reverse with gilt ciselé starburst, marked with impressed factory mark and incised with numeral ‘34’
3½ in. (9 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar egg, see Exhibition Catalogue, 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. 85, no. 47.