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Three Porcelain Easter Eggs
Three Porcelain Easter Eggs

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1910-1916

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Three Porcelain Easter Eggs
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1910-1916
Each ovoid with white body and gilt-bordered aperture, one with the gilt cypher of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna under an Imperial crown and red cross on the reverse, another with the gilt cypher of Nicholas II under an Imperial crown, the third with the gilt ciselé cypher 'AN' under an Imperial crown probably for Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, all unmarked
2¾ in. (7 cm.) high (3)

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Alexis de Tiesenhausen
Alexis de Tiesenhausen

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Nearly identical examples of white ground eggs with the gilt cyphers of Nicholas II, Alexei Nikolaevich and Alexandra Feodorovna are illustrated in T. Kudriavtseva and H. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, London, 2001, p. 61, Nos. 27 & 28, and p. 68, No. 36. Similar eggs are held in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory Museum, St Petersburg, and the State History Musuem, Moscow. These eggs were primarily produced as Easter gifts for soldiers at the front and in hospitals during the First World War.