A 19th Century Russian Turquoise Stone-Set Gold Snuff Box
A 19th Century Russian Turquoise Stone-Set Gold Snuff Box
Russian, St Peterburg circa 1825
Attributed to Carl Helfried Barbé
Length:7.5 cm., 2.95 in
Oblong, the box set over-all with cabochon turquoises, with chased rocaille and scroll gold thumbpiece, apparently unmarked.
A similar Russian, turquoise-covered gold box, bearing the mark of Carl Helfried Barbé of St. Petersburg, is in the collection of the Hillwood Museum and Gardens, and published in Kenneth Snowman, Eighteenth Century Gold Boxes of Europe, 1966, pl. 641. Another turquoise-covered trunk-form snuffbox, maker's mark DK of St. Petersburg, is in the Gilbert Collection and illustrated in Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, vol. 2, 1999, p. 89.
Christie's, London, November 24, 1981, lot 143
Christies 19th April 2022, lot 56
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