MINIATURE CHEST
Creator(s): Unknown (Maker)
Currently in storage
About this object
Box is carved to resemble a peasant Dacha with all the decorative wood trimmings, the details stained in colors. Lined with blue silk on the interior and decorated with the cipher of Alexander III. The cover on the exterior has on one side the cipher of Alexander III against an ermine canopy and with a laurel and oak wreath. At ends are the crown with oak and laurel wreath on one end and the imperial coat of arms on the double-headed eagle on the other.
- Object name:
- MINIATURE CHEST
- Made from:
- Wood -- silk
- Made in:
- Yenikale Kerch, Ukraine
- Date made:
- 1883-1894
- Size:
- 14 x 15.6 x 14 cm (5 1/2 x 6 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 34.30
- Class:
- WOOD
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTIONS Къ стопамъ / Вашего Величества / осмъливаюсь поднести / върноподданный [trans: A loyal subject hembly dares to present this at the feet of his Imperial Majesty], Его Императорскому Величеству / Государю Императору / самодержцу всероссiйскому / Александру III] [trans: the Sovereign Emperor, Autocrat of all the Russias, Alexander III] / Боже Царя Хани! [trans: God Save the Tsar!]; Градоначальство Еникале Керчь Таврической Губернiи [trans:The Municipality of Yenikale Kerch of the Tauride Province with both coat of arms] [in Cyrillic, exterior of chest] MONOGRAMS AIII [On top of chest and inside lid] INVENTORY NUMBERS #822 (in black); #2080 F(in blue); #151 (in yellow) [Bottom] LABEL Дача Александрiя въ Петергофъ [trans: dacha Alexandria, Peterhof] [Bottom]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973