EASEL
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Easel has three legs with a stretcher between the front two to support a miniature. Each leg is engraved with a running frieze of olive leaves. Where the three legs meet at the top is a plaque containing an anthemion motif flanked by scrolling floral and foliate design.
- Object name:
- EASEL
- Made from:
- Gold
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1903
- Size:
- 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.76
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK: front right leg: kokoshnik facing left for 1899-1908 [front right leg] MARK: 56 gold standard; kokoshnik facing left; Ia. L. in Cyrillic for St. Petersburg assaymaster Iakov Lapunov; M.P in Cyrillic for workmaster Mikhail Perkhin; Faberge in Cyrillic [on back support' MARK: 56; kokoshnik left; Ia. L and M.P in Cyrillic [stretcher]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973