Drinking Bowl (Kovsh)

1712 (Early Modern)

27.1 cm 9.8 cm 16 cm

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This kovsh, or drinking bowl, is engraved with the bust of Peter the Great in armor, and the base includes a repoussé double-headed eagle, symbol of the Russian Empire. The kovsh was presented to a commander of Cossack soldiers who was instrumental in uniting nomadic tribes at...

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20306
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Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Saint Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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