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BELL FROM A DRESSING TABLE SET

Creator(s): Aucoc (Firm) , Jean-Baptiste-Casimir Aucoc (Silversmith)

On view in: Marjorie Post's Dressing Room


About this object

The silver surfaces of all pieces are chased with elaborate patterns of scrolls interspersed with shells, flowers, and acanthus leaves on a stippled ground. The upright pieces are topped by the crowned double-headed eagle of the Romanovs perched on an orb surmounted by the imperial crown. The bell, the tumbler, the candlestick, brush, mirror and tray all bear the applied imperial coat of arms instead of the imperial eagle in high relief.

Object name:
BELL FROM A DRESSING TABLE SET
Made from:
Silver gilt
Made in:
Paris, France
Date made:
c. 1848
Size:
3 in. (7.6 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
12.188.33
Class:
SILVER
Signature marks:
MARK A lozenge with a cockerel above and C A under (partially effaced)- maker's mark of Jean-Baptiste-Casimir Aucoc (1796-1865) ; Mercury's head-export mark for gold and silver 1840-1879. Coat of Arms Russian Imperial coat of arms
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973