A Lacquer Box with inset Double Miniature Portrait
PROBABLY BY THE LUKUTIN FACTORY, CIRCA 1815
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A Lacquer Box with inset Double Miniature Portrait
Probably by the Lukutin Factory, circa 1815
the lacquer box oblong with cut corners, the hinged lid inset with a portrait miniature in profile of General Prince Kutuzov and Petr Wittgenstein, with Russian adage, gilt frame, in original red morocco case
4 in. (10 cm.) wide
Lot Essay
The portraits are of two of the military heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812, Prince Mikhail Golenishchev-Kutuzov Smolenskii and Count Peter Wittgenstein