ROUND BOX
Creator(s): Unknown (Jeweler)
Currently in storage
About this object
There is a profile portrait of Catherine II on a round, wooden box which is lacquered black and lined with shell. On the cover is a miniature in enamel on copper of Catherine II facing right, painted in white on a brown ground, imitating a cameo.
- Object name:
- ROUND BOX
- Made from:
- Enamel on copper -- wood -- tortoise shell
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 19th Century
- Size:
- 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.223.1-2
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973