A jewelled gun metal and gilt silver case, C.E. Bolin, St Petersburg 1892.
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Rectangular with rounded corners. Decorated in top right corner with a stylized flower with a cabochon sapphire and small rose cut diamonds set in gold. The case has an interior engraved inscription on a gilt silver plate reading 'Rosebery from The Prince of Wales. Christmas. 1892.'. Rosebery or Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, was a liberal Party politician and Foreign Secretary at the time.
Original case included, marked 'C.E.Bolin, Joaillier de la Cour, St Petersburg, 1892'. Scratched number 34869.
Height 0.8 cm, width 5.5 cm (with sapphire), length 8.5 cm. Weight 94 g.
Provenance
Rosebery from The Prince of Wales. Christmas. 1892.
W.A. Bolin Collection.
Exhibitions
W.A. Bolin 200 years, 'Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra', Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 21.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow, 2001 ‘W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late
XIX-early XX centuries’, catalogue no 116, p. 172.
Literature
Ed. Christian Bolin, Pavel Bulatow, 'W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries', New Hermitage-one Moskva 2001, depicted p. 172, catalogue no 116.
