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Standing Cup with Cover
1748
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Gourd-shaped standing cups with the stem in the form of a tree trunk originated in western Europe during the 16th century but were frequently made in Moscow a century later. This piece also has designs of conventionalized foliage and shells executed in repoussé.
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Details
- Title: Standing Cup with Cover
- Creator: Russian
- Date Created: 1748
- 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 Petrovna (1741-1762)
- Provenance: Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Period: Early Modern
- Object Type: cups
- Medium: silver, parcel gilding
- Inscriptions: [Mark] ГГ; AB; 1748
- Dynasty: House of Romanov
- Dimensions: H: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm)
- Culture: Russian
- Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
- Classification: Gold, Silver & Jewelry
- Accession Number: 57.808
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