$23,940
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000
Auction: February 24, 2022 10:00:00 AM EDT
Of cylindrical form, enameled in translucent grass green over a wavy guilloché ground, with two-color gold ribbon-tied laurel swags suspended from ruby-set rosettes, the top with a seed-pearl rim, surmounted by a cabochon chalcedony, the base unscrewing, marked to interior and exterior, the interior additionally with scratched inventory number 9850.
H: 1, Dia: 1 1/4 in.Provenance
Gift from Prince and Princess Vladamir Galitzine to W.E. Scull (1862-1942), per inscription to storage box.
Thence by descent.
Note
Mrs. William Ellis Scull served as an officer of Philadelphia's Russian Committee that was established in 1914 to provide relief during World War I (Philadelphia in the World War, 1914-1919, pg. 585), this could possibly be a gift in remembrance of that service.