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Ink and calendar
IMPERIAL TOULA MANUFACTORY, RUSSIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Inkwell-calendar
in steel, copper and pewter. In the shape of an armillary sphere, it opens by means of a push-button at the top, revealing a cup and a sand pot. The base features a perpetual calendar, while the square base has a drawer.
ATTACHED is its purchase invoice from Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York) dated 3 March 1973.
Bibliography:
Galerie J. KUGEL, Trésors des Tzars, La Russie et l'Europe de Pierre le Grand à Nicolas Ier, Exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1998, no. 188.
Note :
A similar example is in the collections of the Hermitage, St Petersburg (CF M. Malchenko, Art Objects in Steel by Tula Craftsmen, Leningrad, 1974, no. 81).
The lower right corner of the drawer is missing, the top arch needs re-soldering H: 24 cm