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BOX

BOX

Cat. no.: 36.25.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Workshop)

Date: 1782

Cover is carved in center in simulation of a medal with bust of Catherine II facing right. Her hair is elaborately dressed with curls at sides and she wears both a small crown and a laurel wreath....

MEDAL IN HONOR OF ALEKSEI ORLOV

MEDAL IN HONOR OF ALEKSEI ORLOV

Cat. no.: 36.26

Artist: Johann Balthasar Gass (Designer)

Date: After 1770

This is a copy in ivory of a personal medal honoring Aleksei Orlov for his victorious command of the Russian fleet and the defeat of the Turkish fleet at Chesma in 1770. On the front of the medal...

PLAQUE

PLAQUE

Cat. no.: 36.27

Artist: Unknown

Date: 18th c.

Plaque has four medallions carved after coins or metal meadllions with busts of Tsar Peter I, Tsarina Catherine I, Tsari Empress Elizabeth I (Elizaveta Petrovna) and Tsarina Catherine II, each one...

IVORY BOX

IVORY BOX

Cat. no.: 36.28

Artist: Unknown (Workshop)

Date: mid 18th Century

The Russian city of Kholmogory, located near the city of Archangel on the White Sea, thrived as a center of walrus ivory carving throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This distant...

BOX

BOX

Cat. no.: 36.29.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Workshop)

Date: 1855-1881

Wooden box is decorated only by turning around the side and a miniature portrait of Alexander II set in lid.

BUST OF A MAN

BUST OF A MAN

Cat. no.: 36.30

Artist: Iakov Pamfilovich Seriakov (Sculptor)

Date: 1852

Portrait of a man with curly hair brushed to left and right and with a moustache. Dressed in a military uniform with cipher of Nicholas I on his epaulette. Also wearing badges and stars of various...

BUST OF GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH (FUTURE ALEXANDER II)

BUST OF GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH (FUTURE ALEXANDER II)

Cat. no.: 36.31

Artist: Iakov Pamfilovich Seriakov (Sculptor)

Date: c. 1850

Man has curly hair and a moustache and his shoulders are naked like the portraits of Roman emperors. Probably Alexander II, after a portrait by Franz Kruger.

BUST OF EMPRESS MARIA FEDOROVNA

BUST OF EMPRESS MARIA FEDOROVNA

Cat. no.: 36.32

Artist: Iakov Pamfilovich Seriakov (Sculptor)

Date: 1882

Iakov Panfilovich Seriakov carved this ivory bust of Maria Fedorovna, wife of Alexander III, in 1882, shortly after her husband came to the throne. Although unsigned, this bust forms a pair with a...

TOBACCO JAR

TOBACCO JAR

Cat. no.: 36.33.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Sculptor)

Date: 19th c.

Jar is shaped like the head of a man wearing an Oriental headdress. He has moustache and goatee and wears eariings and has a ruffled collar. His headdress has feathers and a large jewel on the...

SEAL

SEAL

Cat. no.: 36.34

Artist: Unknown

Date: 19th c.

The ivory handle of the seal is ribbed and carved with a rosette at the end. The steel is cut with the Russian coat of arms of the Titov family.

PENDANT

PENDANT

Cat. no.: 36.42

Artist: Unknown

Date: 18th c.

Pendant is carved in horn with a border pierced with holes. On one side is carved a three quarter length of the Virgin and Child inscribed MA OV with stars in background. On opposite side is St....

INTAGLIO

INTAGLIO

Cat. no.: 36.43

Artist: Unknown

Date: 18th c.

Cut with bust of Catherine the Great facing to the left. Amber has crack and shows craquelure due to age. Gold frame is probably modern.

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