A porcelain easter egg, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, 1860s-1870s

the front finely painted with an miniature of Joseph and the Christ Child after a painting by Guido Reni and signed with Cyrillic initials V.M. within a gilded oval border, the reverse with a star in a sunburst enclosed in a burnished-gilt frame 

There is wear to the gilding and the glaze consistent with age. The bottom opening has few very minor chips.
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One of Guido Reni's paintings from the 1620s Joseph with the Christ Child in his arms, was acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in The Hague in 1860 at an auction of the collection of Wilhelm II, King of the Netherlands. Interestingly, this work in known under several different titles. In 1786 the engraver James Walker (1748-1808) executed an engraving after Reni's painting and titled it St. Simeon the Godbearer holding the Christ Child in his arms but in the 1916 catalogue of the Hermitage Painting Gallery it appeared as The Flight into Egypt. 

A similar example painted by Michail Vasilievich Kryukov, please see Tamara Kudriavtseva and Harold A. Whitbeck, Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs, Merrell London, 2001, p.170