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