Interior, chain and lid gilded. Height 14 cm. Weight 439 g.
Indentation. Old repair in the handle. Chain detached, its gilt worn.
Carl Fredrik Bredenberg (active 1788-1821) was born in Porvoo, Finland, and was apprenticed in Stockholm to Petter Eneroth. Journeyman in 1787. Bredenberg worked in St Petersburg and had major imperial commissions from the Winter Palace and the Anichkov Palace, among others. Information from the book by L. Bäcksbacka "S:t Petersburgs juvelerare, guld- och silversmeder 1714-1870", page 113, Konstsalongens förlag, Helsinki 1951.