A jewelled gun metal case, C E Bolin St Petersburg c. 1890.

Of rectangular shape with rounded corners, the surface with an engraved diamond lozenge pattern set with rose-cut diamonds, gilt silver interior, thumbpiece of a cabochon saphire, scratched inventory number 6928. In an original fitted leather case marked C.E. Bolin with the Imperial eagle. Height 1 cm, width 4.8 cm, length 8.4 cm. Weight 96 g.

Provenance

W.A. Bolin Collection

Exhibitions

W.A. Bolin 200 years, 'Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra', Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 20.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow, 2001 ‘W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries’, catalogue no 115, 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 nr 115.

More information

Identical gun metal case attributed to Carl Fabergè in 'Carl Fabergè and the Master Russian Goldsmiths' by Gerhard Hill N.Y 2010.
Similar gun metal case marked Vassilij Finikov (Head workmaster for Bolin S:t Petersburg), Sotheby’s London Russian works of art 2. December 2020 Lot 63.

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