Lot Essay
A cagework and amethystine quartz snuffbox bearing the initials EP for Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna is in the Gilbert Collection, illustrated in Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, vol. 2, 1999, no. 17. Another is illustrated in the Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection, Christie's, London, April 11, 2002, lot 932.