NEPHRITE BOX
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The main part of the square box is from a single piece of bombe nephrite. The detachable cover is in gold, its rim carved with a classical molding. The rest of the cover is a sunburst effect in gold openwork with the central medallion set with a blue stone surrounded by trefoils in tiny diamonds.
- Object name:
- NEPHRITE BOX
- Made from:
- Nephrite (jade) -- gold -- diamonds --sapphire
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1886-1898
- Size:
- 1 1/8 × 1 7/8 in. (2.9 × 4.7 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.67.1-2
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: crossed anchors and sceptre for St. Petersburg (before 1899); 56 gold standard; Faberge in Cyrillic; M.P in Cyrillic for workmaster Mikhail Perkhin [on edge] INSCRIPTION: 456 A gi I-V scratched; scratched number 6377 [interior of the lid]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973