RUSSIAN SCHOOL (Circa 1815) A silver-gilt snuff box set with a pair of portrait miniatures of an Officer and his wife, he wearing dark blue uniform with silver buttons and lace; she wearing white wedding dress and a garland of pink roses entwined in her white lace cap Watercolour on ivory Set within the lid of a silver-gilt lined rectangular snuff box Ovals, 45mm (2in) high, each Exhibited: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, The Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait.Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp. 6, 19 (#32) It is likely that this box was commissioned as a wedding gift for the couple