Snuffbox with Battle Scenes and Portrait of the Empress Elizabeth
The white enamel ground covering this box is intended to simulate the appearance of porcelain, which was used for the production of boxes, particularly in Meissen, but also at the Imperial Porcelain Factory established in St. Petersburg in 1744. Scholars are divided as to whet...
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Sale, Sotheby's, New York, December 8, 1993, Lot 631; Jean M. Riddell, Washington, D.C., 1993, by purchase [Leo Kaplan as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by bequest.
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en
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4
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Medium
silver gilt, painted enamel
Genre
snuffboxes
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