Easter Egg “Madonna and Child with an Angel”

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)