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A RARE PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
Lot 278 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION

A RARE PORCELAIN EASTER EGG

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1905

Closed28 November 2016

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A RARE PORCELAIN EASTER EGG
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1905
Painted with the Mother of God with Christ Child after a design by V. Vasnetsov, within a continuous band of interweaving scrolls, the reverse painted with a gilt ciselé star and sunburst, apparently unmarked
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a comparable Easter egg from the Hermitage collection, see N. B. von Wolf, (ed. V.V. Znamenov), The Imperial Porcelain Factory, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 1906, p. 673; also see G. Oistrakh and A. Tishchenko, Imperatorskie Farforovye Paskhalnye Iajtsa, Moscow, 2008, pp. 210-211, no. 88.