SEAL
Creator(s): Unknown (Jeweler)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The holder is made from gold, and is engraved and enameled in royal blue. It is in the shape of an arm and a hand in armor, engraved in every detail. The royal blue portions of the steel are enameled. At the shoulder end is an agate seal engraved with two coats-of-arms and a crown of Imperial Russia and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The hand grasps a baton which also has seals at either end. One end has an agate seal that is engraved with a monogram and four crowns. The other end of the baton has an agate seal that is engraved with a monogram that encircles a crown. The crowned monogram CM stands for Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna (Ekaterina Mikhailovna) who married the Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1851.
- Object name:
- SEAL
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- jasper -- agate
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- c. 1851
- Size:
- 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.138
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- COAT OF ARMS; MONOGRAMS Family crest of Mecklenburg on one shield, double headed eagle on other; Cross with arms in monogram CM, with four crowns at ends of arms [at one end of the baton], crown in middle, encricled by monogram CM [at one end of the baton]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973