CIGARETTE CASE WITH A VIEW OF THE MOSCOW KREMLIN

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

The box is rectangular with cutaway corners. On the cover in niello is a view of the Moscow Kremlin from the Moscow (Moskva) River. The Large Stone Bridge and a group of small stone buildings outside the Kremlin are visible in the foreground. A small boat with rowers and a passenger is placed in the middle of the foreground. The Kremlin’s “cityscape” is dominated by the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great; the Great Kremlin Palace and Kremlin Towers are all visible. At far right, the domes of St. Basil’s are clearly rendered. The background is engraved to suggest rays of the sun. The sides of the box are decorated with a checkered pattern and the underside with niello and silver squares.

Object name:

CIGARETTE CASE WITH A VIEW OF THE MOSCOW KREMLIN

Made from:

Silver -- niello

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

1856

Size:

1.9 × 13.3 × 7.6 cm (3/4 × 5 1/4 × 3 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

13.102

Class:

NIELLO

Signature marks:

Silver standard 84 Struck in frame on side of the box. Assayer's mark and date [Cyrillic:] A.K 1856 Marks are stamped in checkered niello area on the side of the box. Initials are those of Andrei Antonovich Koval'skii, an assayer active in Moscow between 1821 and 1856. Maker's mark [illegible] Mark is struck in checkered niello pattern on side of box.

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973