Menu
AUCTION # 30: RUSSIAN APPLIED AND DECORATIVE ART
Lot 403:
Lot was removed from auction
An antique Russian lacquer tea caddy in papier-mache technique with a bronze-gilt medallion on the lid. The medallion made by Leopold Heuberger in Vienna depicts a double portrait of the Russian Imperial Couple Alexander I and Marie Auguste of Baden, later known as Elizabeth Alexeievna, Empress of Russia, facing each other. Signed in Cyrillic and dated 1814. On the lid interior, there is a mark referred to the workshop of O. Vishnyakov, the 1870s.
Dimensions: D: 3 1/2 in., (8.9 cm.) H: 3 1/2 in., (8.9 cm.)
Condition: Very good, a small chip at the rim
Share this lot:
