Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

Square with rounded edges and a mound like top. On each of the four sides is an upright oval each with a view of some part if the Kremlin. Scenes are in niello on a silver background. Rest of four sides of each box has an elaborate scroll work carved in the silver with a niello ground. Covers are shaped like a low mound. In center is a reserved medallion intended for a monogram. Background has same silver and niello scroll design as the side except one has intertwined in the background the Russian word for sugar. Both washed gold in interior.

Made from:

Silver -- niello

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

1908-1917

Size:

11 cm (4 5/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

13.173.3

Class:

NIELLO

Signature marks:

MARK kokoshnik, 84, triange, TA, T. APTEMbEBb

Credit line:

Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1968