BOX
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
A triangular box with a hinged lid. Almost the entire surface of the box is covered with opalescent white enamel on a guilloche ground. In the center of the cover is a diamond and the thumbpiece is a tiny cabochon ruby.
- Object name:
- BOX
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- diamond -- ruby
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1886-1898
- Size:
- 1 × 1 11/16 in. (2.5 × 4.3 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.73
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARKS crossed anchors and scepter for St. Petersburg (before 1899); Faberge in Cyrillic [rim of lid]; M.P in Cyrillic for workmaster Mikhail Perkhin; 56 gold standard, crossed anchors, M.P and Faberge in Cyrillic [on rim of box] INSCRIPTION number 604B iMM [rim of lid] SCRATCH #3844 [inside bottom of box]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973