Olof Ekman became master in Stockholm on 2 February 1774, presenting as his masterpiece ‘a gold box with enamelled figures and miniature painting’. He appears to have specialised in Galanteriewaren, as he is recorded as making snuffboxes, scent bottles, watch cases and badges. Little of his marked work seems to have survived although a gold and ivory box of 1776 is recorded in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, and a few examples are in private hands, of which the current example appears to be the most elaborate. He died at the age of sixty-nine in 1805.
It is interesting to note that Ekman has used the rope-twist decoration first employed in Paris earlier in the decade.

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