Easter Egg "The Infant Christ with a Floral Wreath"

Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg. 1862-1870s

Signed with the painter’s initial: P.

Overglaze polychrome painting, enamel, gilt, diverging pattern on porcelain.

Height - 9.0 cm

Egg with painting after the print from a fragment of “The Infant Christ with a Floral Wreath” by Carlo Dolci (1616-1686) (1663).

It is possible that the source of this lithograph was the literary and artistic monthly periodical “Art Galleries of Europe. Notable Works from Various European Schools of Painting”, published by Maurycy Wolff (1825-1883) and edited by the renowned art scholar Alexander Andreev (1830-1891) in St. Petersburg in 1862-1864.