Silver-gilt and niello hinged snuff-box. The top of the box shows Falconet’s Peter the Great Equestrian Statue in an architectural setting, the inscription below says: ‘to Peter I from Catherine II‘; the reverse is nielloed with a view of the Old St.Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns seen from the river Neva with boats in front. Inside the lid is engraved with Latin initials W.M in cursive.
Russian Silver-Gilt & Niello Snuff Box
reference number: RS_064
1836
silver
length: 7.5 cm
maker’s mark: Cyrillic initials O.B. of unidentified maker
assay’s mark: Cyrillic initials N.D. of Nicholai Dubrovin
assay mark of Moscow, 1836
silver standard: 84 zolotnik