A Strasbourg faïence trompe-l'oeil dish of eggs Paul Hannong period, 1750-54

modelled as an arrangement of quartered hard-boiled eggs on a shaped square dish.

Collection of the late Count and Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, Sotheby's New York, October 28, 1989, lot 292

There is an approximate 1/4-inch chip to the underside of the rim and a 1 1/2-inch haircrack running down the rim at one corner. There appears to be long haircracks running parallel to the rim edge, which have now been oversprayed and are not visible from the exterior. There are some occasional chipping or glaze flakes to the edges of the quartered eggs, some of which have been touched up.
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A similar example is illustrated by Hans Haug in Les Faïences et Porcelaines de Strasbourg, pl. XX (a); and in  L'Oeuvre des Hannong: Faïences de Strasbourg et Haguenau, the catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, January to March 1975, p. 68, no. 110.