Miscellaneous

Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg. 1870s

Overglaze polychrome painting, gilt, imitation of diverging pattern on porcelain.

Height - 9.1 cm

Egg with painting after the print from “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1630-1635) by Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666). Currently at the National Gallery, London

Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg. 1845-1855

Overglaze laying, overglaze polychrome painting, gilt, imitation of diverging pattern on porcelain.

Height - 9.1 cm

Egg with painting after “The Allegory of Faith” by Moretto da Brescia (1498-1554). c. 1540.

Acquired by the Imperial Hermitage collection (inv. № ГЭ-20) in 1772 from the Paris collection of L.-A. Crozat, Baron de Thiers (1661-1740).

Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg. 1870s

Underglaze cobalt, overglaze polychrome painting, gilt, diverging pattern on porcelain.

Height - 10.9 cm

Egg with painting after “Nursing Madonna with an Angel” by Antonio da Correggio. 1489-1534.

Purchased by Imperial Hermitage (State Hermitage, inv. № ГЭ-87) from I. Kazanova in Dresden, Germany.

The work is currently housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Inv. № 55)

Porcelain tablet with image of a Saint (thought to be St. Alexandra)

IPF. 1825-1855

State Hermitage.

The Imperial Porcelain Factory Museum

Printed by Paul Petit. Dedicated to Her Majesty the Empress of Russia and under the special patronage of Her Imperial Highness. Volumes 1 and 2. St. Petersburg, Gohier-Defontaines and Paul Petit.

Volume 1 (1845): 1 title page, 1 dedication page, 32 pages and 55 illustrations.

Volume 2 (1847): 1 title page, 32 pages, 57 illustrations.

52.5 × 38.7 cm

Text in Russian and French.