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    "localId": "375090",
    "label": "Tea Cup Holder",
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    "id": "375090",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tea Cup Holder",
    "description": "Fabergé drew upon different historical styles and applied them to the same object type with a consistently high level of finesse. This holder for a tea glass incorporates a range of classicizing ornamental designs from the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the Greek key pattern on the horizontal bands and the intermittent palmettes.",
    "date": "1908",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.157.a",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glass"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Handle: 7.6 cm (3 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Russian"
    ],
    "accession": "2021.157.a"
}

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    "tec": "silver",
    "tombstone": "Tea Cup Holder, 1908. House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918). Silver; handle: 7.6 cm (3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hiller-Borneman Collection, 2021.157.a",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Дорогому А. В. Вержбилович\nПризнательный Митя Шагинъ\n19 I/III 08",
            "inscription_translation": "To dear A. V. Verzhibilovich\nGratefully, Mitya Shagin\n19 I/III 08",
            "inscription_remark": "Aleksandr Verzhbilovich (1850-1911) was a Russian classical cellist.\nMitya is a nickname of Dmitri. A note about the spelling of Шагинъ: it has the \"ъ\" at the end, which was added at the end of most words ending in a consonant in the nominative case in the pre-1918 spelling. This usage was abolished around the Revolution, and the letter is usually left off in contemporary spelling. Therefore, the name should probably be spelled Шагин today."
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Profile of a woman (wearing a kokoshnik) facing left; greek letter delta"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The history of the palmette, a motif resembling fan-shaped palm leaves, can be traced back to ancient Egypt.",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.157.a",
    "creditline": "Gift of the Hiller-Borneman Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:57:43.976000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.157.a/2021.157.a_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 375090,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "silver",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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