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Source Description
The rounded body of this "bratina" or drinking cup is decorated with incised designs of interlaces, fantastic masks, and fruit, inspired by Dutch or Flemish prints. The cup's shape, with an inscription on a broad band at the rim in Russian celebrating drinking rituals, was a specialty of silversmiths associated with the Moscow court of the Tsar. While such cups were also made in Holland and Germany for the Russian market, there does not appear to be any evidence that that is this case here. Dutch and Flemish engravings intended as models for craftsmen were known to circulate in Russia. The inscription translates "Bratina of the Archpriest Demetrius Athinogenov. May one drink from it in good health."
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Document identity
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23596
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Drinking Cup (Bratina)
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Source metadata
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title
Drinking Cup (Bratina)
description
The rounded body of this "bratina" or drinking cup is decorated with incised designs of interlaces, fantastic masks, and fruit, inspired by Dutch or Flemish prints. The cup's shape, with an inscription on a broad band at the rim in Russian celebrating drinking rituals, was a specialty of silversmiths associated with the Moscow court of the Tsar. While such cups were also made in Holland and Germany for the Russian market, there does not appear to be any evidence that that is this case here. Dutch and Flemish engravings intended as models for craftsmen were known to circulate in Russia. The inscription translates "Bratina of the Archpriest Demetrius Athinogenov. May one drink from it in good health."
provenance
Purchased by Count Aleksandr Alekseevich Musin-Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, before 1904; purchased by Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1660-1700 (Baroque)
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CC0
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en
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bratinas
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9
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import
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm)
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Russian
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Baroque
inscriptions
[Transcription] Along the edge: Братина протопопа Дмитреѧ Анъθиногенова. Пити из неiа на здравие; [Translation] ""Bratina"" of the archpriest Demetrius Anthinogenov. May one drink from it in good health
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House of Romanov
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silver, partially gilded
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