SNUFF BOX
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Both the top and bottom are repoussé on a thin silver gilt foil applyed on a metal box with a rococo enamel cartouches. One on the cover depicts a scene with a building, a bridge and two swans in a pond; all in multicolored enamel on a white ground. Bottom cartouche depicts atributes of the arts entwined with ribbon and branches of leaves. Rococo border is attached with silver rivets. Insidethe box is inlaid with a silver repousse foil on the bottom. Lid is missing similar decoration.
- Object name:
- SNUFF BOX
- Made from:
- Silver -- enamel -- silver foil -- metal plate
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 18th c.
- Size:
- 1.3 x 5.7 x 4.4 cm (1/2 x 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.345
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK inside edge: M with coronet above (?); cockerel left (Paris mark?); two small elegible marks on the interior
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973