A porcelain Easter Egg, Fedor Tarachkov, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, second half of the 19th Century

depicting Saint Maximillian holding a palm frond in an oval gilded frame, the reverse with a star in a sun-burst on a gilded ground, signed l.r. with artist's initials F.T. in Cyrillic. 

There is considerable wear to the gilding, the oval cartouche depicting Saint Maximillian has very minor surface scratches.
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A similar egg painted by an unknown painter and signed with Cyrillic initials S.P. is illustrated in Tamara Kudriavtseva and Harold A. Whibeck, Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs, Merrell London, 2001, p.125

Fedor Tarachkov, 1838-1898, a porcelain painter from a family of artists at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, specialised in historical and figure painting on porcelain, including vases, service ware and Easter eggs.