BOX

Creator(s): Alois Gustav Rockstuhl (Miniaturist)

On view in: Icon Room

About this object

Agate box is shaped, curving inwards in the middle and has a plain gold hinge and thumbpiece. On cover is set a miniature in a circlet of miner's diamonds. Miniature is of Alexander II facing right. It is after a portrait by Austrian painter Heinrich von Angeli (1840–1925). Alexander II wears his regimental uniform with his cipher on the epaulettes. He has blue sash of the imperial order of St. Andrew, the badges of three imperial orders and several medals on his tunic near the collar and several medals on his tunic on his right breast. Also he has a regimental badge with XXX in a circle.

Object name:

BOX

Made from:

Agate -- gold -- watercolor on ivory

Made in:

Russia

Date made:

1855-1877

Size:

H. 1 1/2 × W. 3 × D. 2 1/8 in. (3.8 × 7.6 × 5.4 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

11.106

Class:

GOLD

Signature marks:

SIGNATURE: Rockstuhl [on miniature]

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973