ROUND BOX SET WITH A MEDAL OF CATHERINE II
Creator(s): Iakov Gerasimov Moiseev (Silversmith) , Samoila Iudin (Attributed to) , Johann Balthasar Gass (After)
Currently in storage
About this object
The cover is set with a medal of Catherine the Great; on the front are her bust, an inscription identifying her as Empress Catherine the Second, and the artist's signature. On the back of medal is a myrtle branch penetrating a laurel wreath and insciption honoring the August 3, 1790 peace with Sweden above and beneath. On the underside of the box is the Cyrillic monogram RKM with a laurel wreath. Below it is a garland of palm of laurel with a bow. A border of laurel leaves intertwined with ribbon in niello frames the medal on the top of the box; a similar border of flowers and leaves frames the monogram on the bottom. The sides are decorated with a striped design in niello and the interior is gilded.
- Object name:
- ROUND BOX SET WITH A MEDAL OF CATHERINE II
- Made from:
- Silver -- niello -- gilding
- Made in:
- Veliky Ustyug, Russia
- Date made:
- c. 1800
- Size:
- 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.119.1-2
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK 84; city mark (not very clear); A ? foe essayer (A.T.(?) for Aleksei Ivanov Torlov, essayer 1768-1809) / 180?; Ya. M in Cyrillic for workmaster Moiseev Yakov (1779-1811) INSCRIPTION on the top B. (Bozh'yei) M. (Milost'yu) Ekaterina II Imperatritsa i samoderzhitsa Bserossiiskaya (By the Grace of God Catherine II Empress and Ruler of All Russia; underneath the bust: ...DIN in Cyrillic (probably for Yudin Samoila) [front of the medal] INSCRIPTION Sosedstvennyi i vechnyi ( Neighbouring and Eternal) [back of the medal, top] Mir so Schvetsieii zaklyuchen3 avgusta 1790 goda (Peace with Sweden is signed August 3 year 1790); small letter B in Cyrillic above the dividing line stands for the mark of P.Bobrovschikov, medalist who struck the reverse side of the medal [back of the medal, bottom] MONOGRAM RKM in Cyrillic
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973