SEAL
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Henrik Immanuel Wigström (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The handle is a six-sided crystal of aquamarine. The trumpet shaped base is enameled in translucent peach colored enamel with swags of a purplish color floating in it, the whole over an engraved ground. At the top and bottom of the base are laurel leaves carved in green gold against red. There is an agate set in the base.
- Object name:
- SEAL
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- aquamarine -- agate
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1903-1908
- Size:
- 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.220
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: Kokoshnik facing left for 1899-1908; AR in cyrillic for A. Rikhter (St. Petersburg essayer in 1899-1903) or Alexander Romanov (St. Peresburg essayer in 1908); 56; HW [On bottom] INSCRIPTION: UNG JE SERVIRAY [Only One Will I Serve] [On bottom] SCRATCH NUMBER: 13737 [Around the seal]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973