AN EXCEPTIONAL IMPERIAL RUSSIAN GOLD SNUFF BOX BY JOHANN WILHELM KEIBEL

Marks: Full maker’s mark “KEIBEL” in Latin letters, St Petersburg city mark with date 1822, assayer’s mark “АЯ” (Alexander Ilyich Yashinov), and inventory number “447”. Dimensions: Length: 10 cm | Width: 4 cm | Height: 1 cmWeight: 125 grams Provenance: Sotheby’s, 4 June 1998, lot 56 Comparable Museum Examples: Similar works by Keibel are preserved in the permanent collections of the State Hermitage Museum and the Fabergé Museum in St Petersburg, where they are considered masterpieces of Imperial Russian decorative art.

Estimate:£12,538.39

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