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Standing Cup with Cover
1760
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This vessel has designs of conventionalized foliage executed in repoussé. The lid is topped with a double-headed eagle, while Atlas, the ancient god who supported the heavens on his shoulders, serves as the cup's stem.
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Details
- Title: Standing Cup with Cover
- Creator: Russian
- Date Created: 1760
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Style: Baroque
- Roles: Metalworker: Russian
- Reign: Elizabeth (1741-1761)
- Provenance: Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Period: Early Modern
- Object Type: cups; drinking vessels
- Medium: silver, parcel gilding
- Inscriptions: [Inscription] Several marks on lip and leg of figure including the date 1760
- Exhibitions: Russian Art: Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1959-1960.
- Dynasty: House of Romanov
- Dimensions: H: 15 15/16 in. (40.5 cm)
- Culture: Russian
- Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
- Classification: Gold, Silver & Jewelry
- Accession Number: 57.809
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