SNUFFBOX WITH A SCENE OF RED SQUARE MONUMENTS
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Body of the circular box is black. Lid is lacquered in colors with a view of Red Square with the monument to Minin and Pozharskii in the center, St. Basil's to the left, and a tower and walls of the Kremlin to the right.
- Object name:
- SNUFFBOX WITH A SCENE OF RED SQUARE MONUMENTS
- Made from:
- Lacquer -- papier-mâché -- tempera
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 19th c.
- Size:
- 6.8 cm (2 11/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 35.19.1-2
- Class:
- LACQUER
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973