DIVIDED OVAL SNUFFBOX

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

Box is oval with a double lid and a gilt piece on the top which turns and locks both parts of the lid. Surface is covered on all sides with scrolls, leaves engraved and nielloed on a stippled and gilt ground. Two interior compartments are gilded. On cover are the nielloed Cyrillic initials PA.

Object name:

DIVIDED OVAL SNUFFBOX

Made from:

Silver gilt -- niello

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

ca. 1830

Size:

3.5 × 6.6 × 8.3 cm (1 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 3 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

13.85

Class:

NIELLO

Signature marks:

MARK on bottom: St. George and the Dragon (right) for Moscow, 84, D.A.P in Cyrillic in a rectangular frame for unidentified workmaster repeated three times; ?. D possibly for V.D. (unknown essayer in 1830); illegible date; scratched 42 0160 Contour of the mark closely follows the outline of St. George as was typical for marks used in 1825-1829 monogram P A in Cyrillic (?)

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973