A GROUP OF EIGHT PORCELAIN AND LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHÉ EASTER EGGS
SOME BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY AND LUKUTIN FACTORY, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
All ovoid, one depicting St Paul holding a sword, within a gilt ciselé border, the reverse with gilt scrolls on cobalt blue ground; three eggs decorated with gilt cypher of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna beneath the Imperial crown, one with the original silk ribbon; two eggs with floral motifs and Russian inscription ‘Christ is Risen’; two papier-maché eggs depicting Resurrection of Christ, one papier-maché egg marked
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high and smaller
A GROUP OF EIGHT PORCELAIN AND LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHÉ EASTER EGGS
SOME BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY AND LUKUTIN FACTORY, RUSSIA, LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY
All ovoid, one depicting St Paul holding a sword, within a gilt ciselé border, the reverse with gilt scrolls on cobalt blue ground; three eggs decorated with gilt cypher of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna beneath the Imperial crown, one with the original silk ribbon; two eggs with floral motifs and Russian inscription ‘Christ is Risen’; two papier-maché eggs depicting Resurrection of Christ, one papier-maché egg marked
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high and smaller
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