PRESENTATION BOX
Creator(s): Unknown (Goldsmith)
Currently in storage
About this object
Most of surface of red gold box is covered with reeding. At either end and running around box is a band of flowers carved in four color gold. Attached to center of the lid is the double headed eagle and imperial crown, all in diamonds. Below eagle is engraved A III.
- Object name:
- PRESENTATION BOX
- Made from:
- Gold -- diamonds
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 19th Century
- Size:
- 5.6 × 8.7 cm (2 3/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 11.96
- Class:
- GOLD
- Signature marks:
- MARK Illegible, interlaced letters CK [On interior of bottom] MONOGRAM A III [Later addition]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973