Description: LENEMALIERSOVIET UNION MARK _ Ленэмальер LENEMALIER - POWDER COMPACTS Co in former LENINGRAD, USSR SOVIET ERA POWDER COMPACT with MIRROR / DRESSER BOX Featuring the Monument known as "The Bronze Horseman" dedicated to Tzar Peter the Great by Russian Tzarina Cathrine the Great in 1782Opened: August 18, 1782 This powder box was made by Lenemalier (stamped ЛЭ (Lenemalier, Leningrad))Ленэмальер (Lenemalier) company was founded and operated in Leningrad (former USSR), and produced sterling and melchior decorative accessories, including powder compacts, hair brushes, had sterling mirrors, and other dresser accessories This powder box was made of melchior metal - an alloy of copper, mainly with nickel, highly resistant metal to any corrosion and air, and it was mainly used for French and Russian coins. The upper lid is decorated with monument to Tzar Peter The Great - named by Tzarina Catherine The Great The Bronze Horseman. The monument inscribed on the rock: to Peter 1st from Catherine 2nd, year 1782 The upper lid is made-up of highly resistant waterproof oil-paper-image similar as on Italian and French compacts of the same era, known to Russians as oilcloth (kleyonka), and also widely used at the same time on Venetian, Florenceal and Parisian compacts of the same era. The sides of the box enhanced in Art-Deco with aqua-blue-enameled rectangles. All enamels are in good condition. The lid carries framed glass mirror with good reflection. The ornamental metal work on Melchior is exquisite - and is in its original- excellent vintage condition. The powder well is empty but preserved its antiqued sterling feeling of the past Powder box dimensions: 4" inches x 1” inch REFERENCES: You could find references on powder compacts with the same image in Roselyn Gerson books for the collectors, however, at the time of publishing her collectors books, Roselyn did not know about the significance of the monument, and she simply described it as "men on the horse." After I informed Roslyn about the significance of the monument, she was genuinely amazed, and told me that she probably did not appraised it enough. She was genuinely funny. . . The History of the The Bronze Horseman Monument: Catherine the Great dedicated the monument to the founder of St Petersburg - Peter the Great. Peter the Great was the Ruler of Russia (1672–1725), he moved the capital from Moscow to the city that he created: St Petersburg. Sculptor of the Monument - Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716 –1791) - French sculptor, best-known for this equestrian statue of Peter the Great. The pedestal is a single piece of red granite named - the Thunder Stone. It took 18 months to transport the original 1,500-ton stone to its destination with a thousand of men involved. The pedestal looks like a cliff, with Peter the Great on top of it, facing the River. The statue became known as The Bronze Horseman by a narrative poem written by Aleksandr Pushkin. From Smoke-Free Environment
Price: 189 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2023-12-24T19:14:41.000Z
Shipping Cost: 14 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
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