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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO CARTOGRAPHIC BOX
Lot 374 PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO CARTOGRAPHIC BOX

INDISTINCT MAKER'S MARK, MOSCOW, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed26 November 2012

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GBP 27,500

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO CARTOGRAPHIC BOX
INDISTINCT MAKER'S MARK, MOSCOW, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Circular, the detachable cover and base depicting a map of Western, Central and Eastern Siberia, engraved with lines of longitude and topographical features, and inscribed with the names of cities, the sides engraved with a distance table of cities in versts and depicting Siberia's various ethnic groups, marked inside cover and base
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) diameter
4.1 oz. (116.2 gr.) gross

Specialist note

The present box is comparable with those sent by the Governor of Siberia, Denis Ivanovich Chicherin, to St Petersburg in 1765 with his account of the exploration of the Northern Pacific and the discovery of the Aleutian Islands. One of these boxes is now in the collection of the State Historical Museum, Moscow (E.M. Iukhimenko, ed., Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Musei, Moscow, 2007, p. 129). For further information, see M.M. Postnikova-Loseva, Russkoe Chernevoe Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1972, p. 19; and A. von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silverwork, New York, 1981, pp.106-[107].