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Ovoid, each painted with a different saint, including St. Dimitriy, King David playing a harp, and three eggs with St. Nicholas, each within a gilt ciselé border, the reverses painted with gilt ciselé sunbursts, with variously colored velvet ribbons, one egg marked with impressed factory mark under base, three eggs signed with Cyrillic initials of the painters
378 in. (9.8 cm.) long, and smaller
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For a similar egg depicting King David, see exhibition catalogue, Imperial Easter Eggs: a Collection of Porcelain Easter Eggs from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, Copenhagen, 1994, p. 65, no. 22.

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