EGG
Creator(s): Nikolai Nikolaevich Zverev (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Both halves of Easter egg are decorated with a series of panels, curved at one end, and alternately of formalized floral motifs in various colors on a stippled gilt ground and patterns in gilt wire on a turquoise ground, the whole in filgree enamel. Bordering dots are of white enamel.
- Object name:
- EGG
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1898-1914
- Size:
- 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.108.1-2
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- MARK kokoshnik 84 H3; handwritten inside egg H X
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973