PRESENTATION BOX WITH CIPHER OF ALEXANDRA FEDOROVNA
Creator(s): Firm of Karl Karlovich Hahn (Firm) , Carl C. Blank (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Box is in dark blue translucent enamel over a guilloché sunburst pattern. In center of the lid an imperial crown tops the Cyrillic cipher of Alexandra Feodorovna, which is set in diamonds. At each side of the frame is a spray of lily of the valley in rose diamonds. Mountings are of red gold and centering in the border a leaf design carved in green gold. Sides have reeding in various combinations. Sunburst design on bottom of the box.
- Object name:
- PRESENTATION BOX WITH CIPHER OF ALEXANDRA FEDOROVNA
- Made from:
- Gold -- diamonds -- enamel
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1894-1898
- Size:
- 3.8 × 9.5 × 6.4 cm (1 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.95
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK illegible, CB, K. Gan in Cyrillic for Karl Hahn on inside of bottom other marks inside box MARK crossed anchors and scepter for St. Petersburg before1898, 56,CB in latin for Carl Blank in corner of inside of lid SCRATCH scratched 58018
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973