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Lot 124

A porcelain Easter egg
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, circa 1850

8 June 2016, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A porcelain Easter egg

Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, circa 1850
Ovoid, centring an oval panel depicting Saint Nicholas the Miracleworker signed in Cyrillic N.L. within a gilt ciselé border, inscribed in black in Russian above, the reverse with gilt ciselé starburst, marked with impressed factory mark and incised with numeral '39'
height: 10.5cm (4 1/8in).

Footnotes

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

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