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Source Description
During the early 1600s, Dutch merchants were in Moscow actively pursuing the Russian fur trade. They brought gifts for the court that apparently included Dutch metalwork, which influenced the style of local craftsman. Their work, in turn, would have been prized as gifts to be taken back to Holland. This characteristic "bratina" (from the Russian "brat," meaning brother) was to be passed around at feasts. The embossed, chased decoration with masks and flowing forms draws on the work of Dutch silversmiths at mid-century, epitomized by Johannes Lutma.
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Document identity
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3500
label
Drinking Cup (Bratina)
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Source metadata
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3500
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normalized
title
Drinking Cup (Bratina)
description
During the early 1600s, Dutch merchants were in Moscow actively pursuing the Russian fur trade. They brought gifts for the court that apparently included Dutch metalwork, which influenced the style of local craftsman. Their work, in turn, would have been prized as gifts to be taken back to Holland. This characteristic "bratina" (from the Russian "brat," meaning brother) was to be passed around at feasts. The embossed, chased decoration with masks and flowing forms draws on the work of Dutch silversmiths at mid-century, epitomized by Johannes Lutma.
provenance
Count Aleksandr Alekseevich Musin-Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, before 1904, by purchase; Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Saint Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1650-1670 (Early Modern)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
cups (drinking vessels)
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3
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3
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
9.4
height
10.3
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 11/16 × Diam: 4 1/16 in. (9.4 × 10.3 cm)
Source extras
cul
Russian
style
Baroque
inscriptions
[Inscription] Along the edge: Се братина: Питiемъ не упиваисѧ
посудинои не оусмихаисѧ
еѧ бiриги. [Translation] The ""bratina"" says: “Do not get drunk from the drink [and] do not brag of [your] table plate [but] guard it.”
med
partially gilded silver
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6214
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69
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