EGG
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Surface of egg is gilded. It has a sunbursts in dark blue enamel at top and bottom. Around it is a band bordered in blue and red with inscription. All enamel is champleve.
- Object name:
- EGG
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1871-1881
- Size:
- 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.62.1-2
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- MARK inside: St.George and the Dragon (Moscow before 1896), 88, IKh in Cyrillic (Ivan Khlebnikov) Factory in Moscow was opened in 1871. Khlebnikov received his Imperial Warrant in 1881, and since double-headed eagle is absent among the marks, we can assume it was made before 1881. inscription Khristos voskres Christ is risen
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973