Cleveland Museum of Art
Pill or Snuff Box
Feodor Ivanovich RückertLinkedCulture matchlcp-e8161dd9decf
- Date
- 1906–16
- Medium
- silver gilt and enamel
- Culture
- Russia, St. Petersburg
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 142761
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Fabergé’s craftsmen in Moscow became known for their work in the pan-Slavic or neo-Russian taste, hearkening back to 17th-century styles of Russian folk decoration. This little box for pills, snuff, or cosmetic patches follows on in this style with its scene of a romantic ride in the quintessential mode of Russian transportation, a horse-drawn sleigh or troika . Around 1900, ladies often carried little boxes for medicines, a pinch of snuff, or cosmetic patches for the face.
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- Credit line
- The India Early Minshall Collection
- Provenance
- ?-1966: India Early Minshall [1885–1965], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1966-: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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