A SWISS RECTANGULAR VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX, the cover set with and enamel plaque depicting the arches of the General Staff looking towards the Alexander Column in Winter Palace Square, St. Petersburg, signed B.pix, the border crisply chased and engraved in four-colour gold with foliate scrolls, the base and sides with engine-turned panels in floral and shell borders, the walls with a vari-colour gold vase of flowers at each corner, maker's initials CMWS, circa 1830

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A SWISS RECTANGULAR VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF-BOX, the cover set with and enamel plaque depicting the arches of the General Staff looking towards the Alexander Column in Winter Palace Square, St. Petersburg, signed B.pix, the border crisply chased and engraved in four-colour gold with foliate scrolls, the base and sides with engine-turned panels in floral and shell borders, the walls with a vari-colour gold vase of flowers at each corner, maker's initials CMWS, circa 1830
3 3/8in. (8.6cm.) long

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The box was probaly made to commemorate the inauguration of the Alexander Column in 1829. The column, by Montferrand, was considered a great feat of engineering being the largest in the world. The arches of the General Staff, by Rossi, were built between 1819 and 1929.

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