Of rectangular form, the aperture framed by a beaded border, in each corner an ornament of rosettes, the stained birch surrounded by a cast and chased border of oak leaves, a cast bezel of leaf tipsframes the lighter
birch, in an original fitted case by W.A. Bolin Stockholm. Later hallmarked W.A. Bolin Stockholm 1919. Measurements 41.2 x 34.2 cm.
Provenance
W.A. Bolin Collection
Exhibitions
W.A. Bolin 200 years, 'Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra', Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 34.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow , 2001 ‘W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries’, catalogue no 134, p. 179.
Literature
Magdalena Ribbing et al., 'Jewellery & Silver - for Tsars, Queens, and Others, W.A. Bolin 200 Years', Västerås 1996, illustrated and mentioned at p. 110.
Ed. Christian Bolin, Pavel Bulatow, 'W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries', New Hermitage-one Moskva 2001, illustrated p. 179, catalogue no 134.
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