Ivory box

Ivory box, openwork, in the form of a lying cuboid, supported on four legs. The individual elements of the casket are glued, the lid is fixed with two small hinges. The side walls of the casket are made of openwork rectangles filled with stylized ornament of branches and leaves among which there are sitting peacocks. The four diagonally placed legs form half-figures of elephants. The space between them is decorated with a band of stylized four-leaf clovers in a checkerboard pattern. The lid of the box is decorated with three types of ornament with two oval medallions. The medallions painted on ivory, behind the glass. The left medallion depicts the Indian Maharaja sitting on a throne, the right one - the Maharaja's residence in the park. Place of creation of the casket is unknown, it is dated to the first quarter of 20th century.