PATCH BOX
Creator(s): Fabergé (Attributed to) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Attributed to)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
A rock crystal box in engraved with twisted flutings. In center of lid is a yellow diamond. Narrow gold mounting is chased with leaves and set with alternating small diamonds and rubies.
- Object name:
- PATCH BOX
- Made from:
- Gold -- rock crystal -- diamonds -- rubies
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- Before 1899
- Size:
- 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.78
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARKS crossed anchors and sceptre (St. Petersburg before 1899); 56 [inside] INSCRIPTIONS: scratch 39842 LABEL Wartski / LTD / 138, Regent Street / London, W.1. / and Llandudno [inside box]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973