Box by Peter the Great. Flat oval ivory box with lid rotated by Tsar Peter the Great and honored by His physician Nicolaas Bidloo. On the underside a inscription is engraved over the entire surface; Embraced decorations in the lid, with centrally three star-shaped twelve rosettes on top of each other, surrounding oval rings, there again a double ring of small waves; The side of lid is formed by some descending ridges. Inscription on the lid: Opus Petri Magni Primi Totius Russiae Imperatoris Propria Manu Torno Factum Mihi Nicolas Bidloo Archiatro Suo, in Aeternam Ejus Gratia Memoriam Petropoli
Box by Peter the Great. Flat oval ivory box with lid rotated by Tsar Peter the Great and honored by His physician Nicolaas Bidloo. On the underside a inscription is engraved over the entire surface; Embraced decorations in the lid, with centrally three star-shaped twelve rosettes on top of each other, surrounding oval rings, there again a double ring of small waves; The side of lid is formed by some descending ridges. Inscription on the lid: Opus Petri Magni Primi Totius Russiae Imperatoris Propria Manu Torno Factum Mihi Nicolas Bidloo Archiatro Suo, in Aeternam Ejus Gratia Memoriam Petropoli Clementer Largitum November 13, 1724 Reverenter Acreligiosis in MEA Familia Conservetur. This ivory box is kept in an oval box of Tomak with a painting.
Size: 2500px × 1762px
Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
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