Lot 577
  • 577

A porcelain easter egg, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, circa 1890

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • height: 10.5cm, 4 1/8 in.
after a design by Osip Chirikov, the central reserve with a finely painted figure of Saint Olga, depicted standing on the riverbank wearing pink and green robes and holding a cross, the reverse decorated with the Greek cross with Christ Pantocrator in the centre on a pale pink and green ground and encircled by a pattern of stars, rosettes and garlands of stylised leaves

Condition

There is slight wear to the paint surface consistent with age. A very attractive piece in apparent good overall condition.
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