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Covered Cup with Large Foot
1745
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Around the body of the cup is a silver envelope with pierced designs and three portrait medallions in repoussé. The finial of the cover is designed as a double-headed eagle.
Details
- Title: Covered Cup with Large Foot
- Creator: Russian
- Date Created: 1745
- 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: Artist: Russian
- Reign: Elizabeth I (1741-1762)
- 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 gilt
- Inscriptions: Bears the marks of an unknown maker 'VD', who was active 1741-1753. It also bears the assayer's mark of Andrei Zaitsev who was active from 1735-1749. Several marks on rim: Moscow 1745.
- 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: 5 13/16 in. (14.7 cm)
- Culture: Russian
- Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
- Classification: Gold, Silver & Jewelry
- Accession Number: 57.807
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