The bulbous carved rock crystal body with gold openwork rim, surmounted by a lapis lazuli and gold-mounted rose-cut diamond collar, with part of the label glued to the body 'Appartenait à S. M. l'Empereur de Russie Alexandre II', with a hinged gold-mounted lapis lazuli top, with a detachable gold stopper inside, marked on mounts; in a fitted Hammer Galleries wooden case
2¹⁄₈ in. (5.5 cm.) high

Souvenirs, Objets d'Art, Bijoux du Tsar Alexandre II; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1931, lot 43, illustrated p.12.
With Hammer Galleries, New York.

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