
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
Department Director
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Department Director
The signature is for Nikolai Lifantev, a porcelain painter at the Imperial Factory 1820s-1850s.
The image is drawn from the mosaic after S.A. Zhivago above the royal doors in the main iconostasis of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
For example by Lifantev, see Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs by Kudriavtseva and Whitbeck, p.129, and for 2233 similar St. NIcholas after Zhivago, see p.137 and Hermitage Museum inventory number ЭРФ-9137.
For similar egg illustrated, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T. N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2003, p. 194