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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BOX
Lot 93

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BOX

RUSSIA, PROBABLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed15 April 2013

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BOX
RUSSIA, PROBABLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Circular, the detachable cover repoussé and chased with the profile of Count Alexander Vasilevich Suvorov within the Russian inscription 'Count Alexander Vasilevich Suvorov Rimnik Gen[eral]-in-chief', within a berried laurel border, additionally inscribed in Russian 'Copied by Pritki' beneath the Count, the base chased and engraved with a lyrical allegory depicting the victories of Rimnik, Ismail, Fokchani and Kinburn in 1787, 1789 and 1790, apparently unmarked
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diameter
7.6 oz. (215.4 gr.)

Specialist note

The present lot reproduces the design of a medal executed in 1791 by Carl Leberech and I. Hass. The medal depicts the earliest known representation of Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov (1730-1800). Only a small number of the medals designed by Leberech and Hass were produced in 1791, and thus later copies were executed by A. Pritki and M. Kutchkin of the St. Petersburg mint. See A.V. Pomarnotskii, Portraits of A.V. Suvorov, Leningrad, 1963, pp. 28-32.