TRAY FROM A DRESSING TABLE SET (ONE OF TWO)
Creator(s): Aucoc (Firm)
On view in: Marjorie Post's Dressing Room
About this object
The silver surfaces of all pieces are chased with elaborate patterns of scrolls interspersed with shells, flowers, and acanthus leaves on a stippled ground. The upright pieces are topped by the crowned double-headed eagle of the Romanovs perched on an orb surmounted by the imperial crown. The bell, the tumbler, the candlestick, brush, mirror and tray all bear the applied imperial coat of arms instead of the imperial eagle in high relief.
- Object name:
- TRAY FROM A DRESSING TABLE SET (ONE OF TWO)
- Made from:
- Silver gilt
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- ca. 1849
- Size:
- 13 13/16 in. (35.1 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.188.2
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK; COAT OF ARMS Aucoc A.II on a rectangle and alozenge with the figure of a cockerel above and C A under- maker's marks of Jean-Baptiste-Casimir Aucoc (1796-1865) ; partially struck insect- "bigorne" (beak-iron) mark 3370 Bimmi-l set 20 scratched Imperial coat of arms
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973