BELT BUCKLE
Creator(s): Fabergé (Firm) , Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Workmaster)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The border of the rectangular buckle is enameled blue over an engraved wavy pattern. The outer edge is silver gilt engraved with a dot and dash motif. The inner border is silver gilt set with seed pearls. The two prongs are silver gilt.
- Object name:
- BELT BUCKLE
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel -- pearls
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1903
- Size:
- 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (5.7 × 5.7 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.142
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK: back of buckle: kokoshnik facing left for 1899-1908; Ia. L for Yakov Liapunov (St. Petersburg essayer in 1899-1903); 88 for the silver standard; Fabergé in Cyrillic M.P in Cyrillic for Mikhail Perkhin [on back of buckle] MARK: 88; M.P [on hinged attachment] SCRATCH MARK: 4970
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973