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GOLDSMITH'S ART - Faberge' Eggs

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The first documented golden painted egg appeared in 1664. Procopius Ivanov, herbal ornamental design artist of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, was summoned to Moscow to paint eggs. Two years later he brought to the court 170 wooden eggs painted over gold «in various colored paints in beautiful herbal patterns.»

In the 18th-19th centuries, artistically decorated Easter eggs become so widespread among the various segments of the Russian population that from that time it is possible to speak about Easter eggs as a peculiar type of popular decorative applied art. By that time, both precious jewelry eggs and simple peasant pisanki (painted eggs) and krashenki (dyed eggs) had become fairly traditional.

As a result of Peter the Great's reforms (from the founding of the city St Petersburg 1703), materials new for Russia appeared — porcelain, glass, papier-mache — and contributed to the development of the art of making Russian Easter Eggs.

The earliest porcelain Easter egg that came down to us was created for the 1749 Easter. From then until the 1917 revolution, the Imperial Porcelain Factory manufactured Easter eggs. For every Easter Sunday, the factory manufactured Easter eggs for the members of the imperial family «to be handed out» at the time of congratulating each other on Easter day. The decoration of Easter eggs, especially porcelain and glass ones, which were the most numerous throughout the 19th century, correlated with a particular trend in the fine arts.
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