Description
This Russian-style presentation box was manufactured by the Paris firm of Cartier for sale in the shop of Fabergé's principal rival in St. Petersburg, Karl Hahn, who held the title of "Court Jeweler."
Exhibitions
Russian Art: Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1959-1960.
Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
