Description
The case is embossed with a scene of Alexander the Great with his wife Roxane, daughter of Oxyartes, the Bactrian.
Provenance
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870); Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] (on 1893 list, no. 82); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Transcription] Backplate engraved: Wm. Grantham, London 12019;
[Stamp] On case: P (for 1770); [Initials] I. W.
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, after 1893
