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Oval Box with View of the Kremlin
Eleventh Artel1908-1917
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
A view of the Kremlin towers is painted within the oval on the box's lid. The filigree and painted enamel decoration of tulip blossoms is raised against a stippled background. A cabochon amethyst serves as the thumb-piece.
Details
- Title: Oval Box with View of the Kremlin
- Creator: Eleventh Artel
- Date Created: 1908-1917
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Workshop: Eleventh Artel
- Provenance: Leo Kaplan, New York; Jean M. Riddell, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1985, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by bequest.
- Object Type: boxes
- Medium: silver gilding, painted filigree enamel, amethyst
- Inscriptions: [Symbols] A11, circular kokoshnik left, IL (in Cyrillic, for Ivan Lebedkin, Moscow assay master, 1899-1908)
- Dimensions: H: 1 9/16 x W: 6 7/16 x D with stone: 3 1/16 in. (4 x 16.3 x 7.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Jean M. Riddell, 2010
- Classification: Enamels
- Accession Number: 44.95
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