EGG
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Egg opens forming a triptych and has an empty space inside for a small icon. At top is a ring for suspension. Surface is covered with a pale turquoise enamel with floral scrolls in gilt wire and enamel. On front is a reddish cross and on back XB in red for Christ is risen.
- Object name:
- EGG
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- Late 19th c.
- Size:
- 7.6 cm (3 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.100
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION XB; 84 St. George and the dragon (for Moscow) (twice); handwritten inside egg N°65 15.5 11 r (rubles) 50
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973