Box by Peter the Great, Flat oval ivory box with lid turned by Tsar Peter the Great and honored by him to his physician Nicolaas Bidloo. On the underside an inscription is engraved over the entire surface, decorations carved on the lid, with three star-shaped twelve-pointed rosettes on top of each other, surrounded by oval rings, surrounded by a double ring of small waves, the side of the lid is formed by a few sloping ribs. 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 Pet

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