Drinking Cup (Bratina)

1660-1690 (early Modern)

10 cm 11.8 cm

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Drinking cups like this one, called a "bratina" in Russian, were passed around at ceremonail banquets. They were usually made of gilded silver, but ours has been fashioned from a coconut shell. An exotic fruit in Northern Europe, coconuts were highly prized during the 17th cen...

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Countess Luibov Aleksandrovna Musina-Pushkina (born Kusheleva-Bezborodko), Saint Petersburg, prior to 1904, by purchase; Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov (Alexandre Polovtsoff), Saint Petersburg and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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