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Lot Essay
Catherine II 'the Great' was empress of Russia from 1762.
Details
After Rokotov, 19th Century
Tsarina Catherine II (1729-96), in profile to left, in pale blue frilled dress and wearing the sash and breast star of the Order of St. Andrew, wearing pearls and jewells in her powdered hair
mounted on the lid of an gilt-mounted tortoiseshell snuffbox
oval, 2½ in. (63 mm.) high
See Front Cover Illustration
Tsarina Catherine II (1729-96), in profile to left, in pale blue frilled dress and wearing the sash and breast star of the Order of St. Andrew, wearing pearls and jewells in her powdered hair
mounted on the lid of an gilt-mounted tortoiseshell snuffbox
oval, 2½ in. (63 mm.) high
See Front Cover Illustration
Special notice
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