A two-color gold cigarette-case in the Renaissance taste, the pink matte gold body chased with yellow gold cartouche, scrolling acanthus foliage and mythical birds, cabochon sapphire pushpiece - signed with Imperial Warrant mark, initials of workmaster Oskar Pihl, assay marks for Moscow before 1899 and Moscow 1890, unrecorded assay master's initials AA, inventory no. 4803, length 3 1/2 inches (9 cm)

Bibliography: Traina 1998, p. 96 (top) Exhibited: New York/San Francisco et al. 1996/7, cat. 368