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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
6143
label
Standing-Cup with Cover
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
6143
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Standing-Cup with Cover
description
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.
provenance
Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 17th century (Early Modern)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
cups (drinking vessels)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H:10 9/16 in. (26.9 cm)
Source extras
cul
Russian
style
Baroque
inscriptions
[Maker's Mark] Stamped on base and upper rim with swan in oval.
dynasty
House of Romanov
med
silver, parcel gilt, niello
creator_ids
6214
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
1dcadbc6ccc79d70