An Art Nouveau arrow shaped box, the hinged cover applied with silver fanned branches with diamond-set stems and translucent green enamelled foliage on opaque sky blue en plein enamelled ground, marked inside cover and base. Dimensions 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.9 cm. Weight 94 g.
W.A. Bolin Collection
For a similar example of Bolin's use of diamond-set naturalistic leaf forms and en plein enamelling on a powder-box, marked Bolin, Moscow, 1899-1908 and held in the collection of the Russian National Museum, Moscow, see C. Bolin and P. Bulatov, Bolin in Russia. Court Jeweller, Moscow, 2001, p. 233, No. 227.