Standing-Cup with Cover
This piece has designs of birds and foliage in niello on the sides of the hexagonal cup. Inside is gilt, with the figure of a shrimp "en plein" air. When the drinker is finished, a shrimp stares at him from inside the cup. The finial of the cover is designed as a nude child.
Artifact
| id |
id
6143
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|---|---|
| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg |
|---|---|
| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.806 |
Terms
Culture
Russian
Medium
silver, parcel gilt, niello
Relations
createdBy
inCollection