TOULA IMPERIAL MANUFACTORY, RUSSIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY Inkwell-calendar in steel, copper and יtain. In the form of an armillary sphטre, it opens with a push button at the top, dיcovering a bucket and a pot א sand, the base prיsente a perpיtual calendar, the base carrיe prיsente a drawer. ATTACHED is its purchase invoice from Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York) dated 3 March 1973. Bibliography: Galerie J. KUGEL, Trיsors des Tzars, La Russie et l'Europe de Pierre le Grand א Nicolas Ier, Exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1998, no. 188. Note: A similar example is in the collections of the Hermitage, Saint Pיtersburg (CF M. Malchenko, Art Objects in Steel by Tula Craftsmen, Leningrad, 1974, no. 81). Lack on the lower right corner of the drawer, upper arc א reweld H: 24 cm