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RUSSIA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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THREE PAPIER-MACHÉ AND LACQUER EASTER EGGS
RUSSIA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each ovoid, on a red ground, the largest egg depicting the Resurrection of Christ on the front and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and Assumption Belfry in the Moscow Kremlin on the reverse, the interior inscribed in Russian: 'From Moscow Bezpopovtsy Old Believers 1870’, marked inside with the coat-of-arms of the Lukutin factory, the two small eggs depicting the Resurrection of Christ, unmarked; together with a glass egg depicting the Resurrection of Christ, unmarked
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high and smaller
RUSSIA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each ovoid, on a red ground, the largest egg depicting the Resurrection of Christ on the front and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower and Assumption Belfry in the Moscow Kremlin on the reverse, the interior inscribed in Russian: 'From Moscow Bezpopovtsy Old Believers 1870’, marked inside with the coat-of-arms of the Lukutin factory, the two small eggs depicting the Resurrection of Christ, unmarked; together with a glass egg depicting the Resurrection of Christ, unmarked
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high and smaller
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