Oval Box with Monogram of Nicholas II

early 20th century

9 cm 4.4 cm 6.7 cm

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This nephrite box is decorated with the monogram of Nicholas II in diamonds. The 300-year-long reign of the Romanov dynasty ended in 1917 in the revolution that cost Nicholas II his life. Later, in the 1920s, Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, was able to buy a...

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Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1929-30, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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