A porcelain Easter egg, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, 1914-1917

the front is decorated with the monogram of Empress Alexandra Fedorova painted in Slavic interlace script and embellished with geometric ornament beneath Imperial crown, the reverse with red cross  

Augusta Louisa Caroline Ellis, Lady Monson (c.1840 - 1936)
Thence by family descent

The glaze is a little discoloured, but otherwise in good overall condition consistent with age.
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The Easter eggs decorated with Imperial cyphers AF or MF and a red cross were commissioned by the Imperial family during World War I in 1914. They were intended for presentation to wounded soldiers in hospitals during the traditional Easter blessing. Eggs embellished with crosses and the year of Easters celebrated throughout the War were also made in other materials for presentation at Court. As gifts to his wife and mother at Easter 1915 Nicholas II commissioned Fabergé to make gold eggs with red crosses on a white enamel ground, and with miniature portraits of his wife and daughters, all of whom nursed the wounded in hospitals throughout the War.

For other examples of porcelain Easter eggs decorated with Imperial cyphers and red crosses, see Tamara Kudriavtseva and Harold A. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs, Merrell London, 2001, pp. 63-66