boîte à fard en or 18 carats et verre taillé par Norman Marshall, Londres, 1913

le couvercle en or dévissable orné du chiffre couronné de Abbas II Hilmi Bey, dernier khédive d'Egypte et du Soudan, en diamants taillés en rose, le fond à décor de rinceaux feuillagés et masques de putti, doublé de liège, le corps en verre taillé orné d'une frise en repercé de rinceaux feuillagés



The gold cover inset with the crowned cipher of Abbas II Hilmi Bey, last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, in rose diamonds, on a rococo ground chased with acanthus scrolls and putti masks, cork and screw mount, the cut-glass jar bordered with scrolling gold openwork foliage

Following education in England, Switzerland and Vienna, Abbas II (1874-1944) suceeded to the throne at the young age of 18 following the sudden death of his father Tewfik Pasha. At that time Egypt and Sudan were under British control and so much of Abbas's reign was taken up with covert and overt support for the local nationalist party and uneasy relations with the British authorities before his support for Turkey in the First World War led to his deposition.

William Norman Marshall, generally known as Norman Marshall, traded as Pittway Brothers of 25 Hatton Garden, London, dressing case manufacturers.