Drinking Bowl (Kovsh)

1758 (Early Modern)

33.1 cm 16.3 cm 21.1 cm

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"Kovshi" are boat-shaped bowls or ladles, originally made of wood, which can be traced back to the 14th century. This piece carries the double-headed eagle, state emblem of the Russian Empire. By the 18th century, large drinking bowls like this one were were no longer used as...

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Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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