FRAME WITH MINIATURE OF MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)
Currently in storage
About this object
The opening for the picture is made of gold with beading. About this is a bowenite panel with a garland of leaves carved in green gold, intertwined about a red gold band. Outer frame has two intertwined ribbons carved in green gold against red gold. The frame holds a miniature of Marjorie Merriweather Post painted by Sophia Engalichev.
- Object name:
- FRAME WITH MINIATURE OF MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST
- Made from:
- Gold -- bowenite -- ivory -- glass
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1886-1898
- Size:
- 3 7/16 × 2 15/16 in. (8.7 × 7.5 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.70.1
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARKS crossed anchors and sceptre (assay mark of St. Petersburg before 1899); 56; MP (in Cyrillic initials of Mikhail Perkhin); signed Faberge in Cyrillic [on back edge]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973