A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND ENAMEL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE

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A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND ENAMEL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX WITH PORTRAIT MINIATURE
marked KÄM. probably for Heinrich Wilhem Kaemmerer of St. Petersburg, the miniature signed Winburg, circa 1840

Oblong, the cover set with an oval miniature under glass of Tsar Nicholas I, with paste-set borders and angles, with chased and engraved foliate scrolls between, the rim with a blue enamel and engraved acanthus band, the base with a shaped central panel and border, chased and engraved with folaite scrolls and flowers against an engine-turned ground, the sides similarly decorated with foliate scrolls, marked on the bezel -

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Heinrich Wilhem Kaemmerer (1809-1837) worked in association with Keibel in the the execution of Orders from 1836 to 1846. Although he is not recorded as a box maker, the firm of Keibel were the most famous gold-box makers in Russia in the first half of the 19th Century. Keibel is known to have produced a series of boxes for the Imperial court, with the maker's inscription and no other Russian hallmarks, as was customary for Imperial commissions. [Solodkoff, Alexander von, Orfèvrie russe (Fribourg, 1981) pp.132, 154, 210-11]

Jwan Winberg, was miniature painter to the Imperial court of Russia working in St. Petersburg during the reigns of Nichlas I and Alexander II.

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