The casket of rectangular formed body with a hinged lid in silver with silver applications covered in ivory white matted opaque enamel. The lid decorated with silver foliage. Later marked W.A. Bolin Stockholm 1920. Height 6.7 cm. Width 13.3 cm. Length 20 cm.
W.A. Bolin Collection
W.A. Bolin 200 years, 'Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra', Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 35.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow, 2001 ‘W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early
XX centuries’, catalogue no 135.
Magdalena Ribbing et al., 'Jewellery & Silver - for Tsars, Queens, and Others, W.A. Bolin 200 Years',
Västerås 1996, illustrated and mentioned at p. 116.
Ed. Christian Bolin, Pavel Bulatow, 'W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries',
New Hermitage-one Moskva 2001, illustrated p. 180, catalogue no 135.
This unique ivory white opaque enamel was a Bolin speciality.