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PEN HOLDER

Creator(s):

Currently in storage


About this object

Holder is enamelled royal blue over a guilloche zig-zag pattern, with a white geometric collar at top, executed in champleve enamel. Place for pen is in gold, ribbed. At opposite end there is a conical gold finial with a cabochon amethyst.

Object name:
PEN HOLDER
Made from:
Gold -- enamel
Made in:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date made:
1908-1917
Size:
18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
11.101
Class:
GOLD
Signature marks:
MARK kokoshnik right (1908-1917), alpha for St. Petersburg, 56, IB in Cyrillic for Ivan Britsyn (?)
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973