The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 32 (1997)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 32

"Chinese Shells, French Prints, and Russian Goldsmithing: A Curious Group of Eighteenth-Century Russian Table Snuffboxes"

Koeppe, Wolfram
1997
8 pages
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Wolfram Koeppe

Wolfram Koeppe is Marina Kellen French Senior Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

Met Art in Publication

Nautilus cup, Nautilus shell, with gilded silver mounts, Dutch, Utrecht
1602
Table snuffbox, Jacques de Lajoüe , published in Paris 1736 French, Green Turban snail shell; gilded, matted, punched, and engraved silver; niello, Russian, probably Velikiy Ustyug
Jacques de Lajoüe
ca. 1745–50