细节
A RUSSIAN TWO-COLOUR GOLD IMPERIAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX SET WITH A MINIATURE
by Andreas Dahlberg (fl. 1786-1818), marked both with initials and with full family name, with the St Petersburg town mark, assay master Aleksander Ilyitch Yashinov, the miniature studio of Domenico Bossi, circa 1805
Rectangular box with rounded corners and hinge at the short side, the cover centred by a glazed oval miniature depicting Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), facing left in semi-profile with flowing forward-combed curly light-brown hair and sidewhiskers, wearing a blue uniform with embroidered red high collar, decorated with the blue sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of Saint Andrew and with the badge of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St George, gold epaulettes, within a narrow gold rim stamped with stylized acanthus, framed in a frosted gold border stamped in two-colour gold with acorn leaves and cones, on a rectangular frosted gold panel with rounded corners, stamped with scrolling foliage and applied in the corners with four circular spandrels stamped with rosettes on a frosted ground, within a fluted border, the panels on the sides and base engine-turned with a diaper pattern and framed by frosted gold bands stamped with trailing foliage, with similarly stamped frosted gold corners
3 9/16 in. (90 mm.) high