On the cover:
The Snow Leopard shaped vase.
London, England, 1600-1601.
Received by the treasury
of czar Mikhail Fedorovich
in 1629.
Kept in the front china chest
at the Granovitaya Chamber.
Author is unknown.
Silver, casting, engraving.
Photo by Nikolai Rakhmanov.
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