
Probably Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, 1820s
Ovoid, decorated with gilt stars on a pink ground, with green foliate borders, the front reserved with the Resurrection of Christ, the reverse with the Cup of Salvation, depicting the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above the Holy Sacraments, with a silk ribbon, unmarked.
Height 3 1/4 inches (8.3 cm).
For a porcelain Easter egg by the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory with comparable decoration, see the exhibition catalogue, Imperial Easter Eggs: an Exhibition of Porcelain Easter Eggs from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Margethe II, Copenhagen, 1994, No. 13, p. 50, illustrated p. 56. Another example is illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva & H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs [Русские императорские фарфоровые пасхальные яйцa], London, 2001, No. 59, p. 96.
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