A Russian porcelain Easter egg, probably Imperial Porcelain Factory, circa 1910. The clear glazed egg with stylized triple flowerheads in shades of navy blue, purple, & orange within green vines interspersed with “bulls’ eyes” in similar shades. Height: 4 in. (10.2 cm).

This design strongly resembles works by Rudolf Vilde (Rudolf Feodorovich von Vil’deman, 1868-1938/1942), composed for the decoration of glass & porcelain at the Imperial factories in the last years before World War I. His pre-war designs in the taste of the Stil modern, a Russian distillation of Art nouveau & Jugendstil, were usually rendered in bright colors against a porcelain ground with only a clear glaze. For other examples of Vilde’s designs in this style, see Tamara Kudriavtseva, Russian Imperial Porcelain, St. Petersburg, 2003, pp. 213, 222 & T.N. Nosovich & I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, pp. 29, 97.