Property from an Important Private Collection, United Kingdom
St Nicholas the Wonderworker: a porcelain Easter egg, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St Petersburg, Period of Nicholas I, 1830s-40s
Auction Closed
November 25, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
depicting the saint in half-length in a roundel, the rest of the egg gilt, the saint's name inscribed above his portrait, signed I A in the bottom right corner of the painting, with impressed mark for Nicholas I on the base
height 9.5cm; 3 3/4 in.
For a comparative egg, please see T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs, London, 2001, pp. 101 and 107, nos. 63 and 71.
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