A Porcelain Easter Egg, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1890

A Porcelain Easter Egg, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1890

After a design by Osip Chirikov, the central reserve with a finely painted figure of Saint, depicted standing against a landscape wearing blue and cream robes and holding a manuscript, the reverse decorated with the Greek cross with Christ Pantocrator in the centre on a pale peach ground and encircled by a pattern of stylised leaves, with a red ribbon

height 11.5cm, 4½ in.