SNUFFBOX
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
On cover is a view of some building to the left and right and a cobblestoned street in the foreground while the background is engraved with the rays of the sun. Sides have a criss cross pattern in niello and on the bottom a checquered pattern with an eight lobed panel in the center intended for a monogram.
- Object name:
- SNUFFBOX
- Made from:
- Silver -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1874
- Size:
- 4.1 × 6.6 cm (1 5/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.68
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK in bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, 84, B.C./1874; inside lid: St. George, 84, 1874, illegible
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973