RUSSIAN SCHOOL AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830)

RUSSIAN SCHOOL AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI (ITALIAN, 1751-1830) Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia 1762-1796, known as Catherine the Great, in ermine robes, wearing the diamond-encrusted chain of the Imperial Russian Order of St Andrew, a tiara and laurel leaves in her upswept hair on ivory oval, 2 1/8 in. (60 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount