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The painted glass plaque on the cover of this box portrays Catherine the Great in the guise of Minerva, an allusion to her strength as a bellicose ruler as well as to her image as an enlightened...

This oval, hinged box features medallions with figures in chased gold relief on the lid, bottom, and all four sides, and panels or roundels of moss agate. On the lid, the figure on the right...