A RARE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BOX
Lot 320

A RARE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BOX

PROBABLY VELIKII USTIUG, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 5,000

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A RARE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BOX
PROBABLY VELIKII USTIUG, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The niello cover depicting the portrait of Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov after I. Kreützinger, within a gilt stippled rim, the reverse nielloed with a classical allegory of Victory, apparently unmarked, with import marks on rim
2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 17-18 May 1994, lot 154.
Collection Alexandre Djanchieff.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

For an engraving portrait of Suvorov after I. Kreützinger, see D. Rovinski, Dictionary of Russian Engraved Portraits, Volume III, St Petersburg, 1888, p.1981.