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A GILT BRONZE EASTER EGG
Lot 188PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION

A GILT BRONZE EASTER EGG

POSSIBLY CAST AT THE DUKE OF LEUCHTENBERG'S BRONZE FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A GILT BRONZE EASTER EGG
POSSIBLY CAST AT THE DUKE OF LEUCHTENBERG'S BRONZE FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, MID-19TH CENTURY
Ovoid, with a hinged cover, each side cast and finely chased with a cartouche centring images of Christ, within biblical motifs, the interior lined with velvet, with a push-piece, opening to reveal a ciselé gilt porcelain egg by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, depicting the Resurrection, apparently unmarked
The bronze egg, 5 in. (13 cm.) high, excluding ribbon

Note du spécialiste


Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852), was the husband of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, daughter of Nicholas I. In 1844 he founded a casting factory in St Petersburg and opened Genissieu, a shop on Nevsky Prospect, which offered the decorative bronze works from his factory.

An invoice from Genissieu dated 1844 records a similar gilt bronze egg with religious motifs, which was sold to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna for 125 roubles. It is possible that this was a comparable egg, or indeed the present lot.