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| Keywords: Ditmar Kahrs - Box with Profile Images of the Six Children of Tsar Paul I - Walters 5745 - View A.jpg This rectangular tobacco box with chamfered corners is faced with sheets of malachite Set in the lid is a panel of verre glomis a decorative technique in which a design is worked onto the reverse side of a sheet of glass that has been gilded silvered or painted-gold and black being the most common color combinations In Russia it was a popular art form not only for small items but also for large pieces of furniture Although much verre glomis was produced at the Imperial Glass Factory in St Petersburg russian Импе ато ский Стекольный завод; part of Кабинет Его Импе ато ского Величества individuals including Grand Duchess Marie Fedorovna also practiced this technique Represented in profile are the six older children of Paul I 1754-1801 and his second wife Marie Fedorovna 1759-1828 The portraits replicate an aquatint by James Walker 1748-1808 an English artist appointed engraver to the Court of Catherine II in 1785 His print in turn is based on a miniature by Marie Fedorovna dated 1790 which she presented to her husband on September 19 of that year The subjects are Grand Dukes and Duchesses Alexander later Alexander I Constantine Alexandra Elena Maria and Catherine ca 1795 gold malachite verre églomisé cm 2 54 9 84 4 76 accession number 57 45 21841 Alexandre Polovtsoff Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Signature DK Objects of Vertu Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 The Fabergé Menagerie The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Columbus Museum of Art Columbus; Portland Art Museum Portland 2003-2004 place of origin St Petersburg Russia Walters Art Museum license Ditmar Kahrs Collections of the Walters Art Museum Verre églomiséArt objects of malachite James Walker engraver Six children of tsar Paul I by Maria Feodorovna Gold boxes Tobacco boxes | ||||
