Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Standing Cup with Cover
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This vessel has designs of conventionalized foliage executed in repoussé. The lid is topped with a double-headed eagle, while Atlas, the ancient god who supported the heavens on his shoulders, serves as the cup's stem.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2017-2018 | Fabergé and the Russian Crafts Tradition: An Empire's Legacy . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2016 | Konstantin Makovsky, The Tsar's Painter. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington. |
| 1959-1960 | Russian Art: Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Russia, Moscow (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall Cup H: 10 5/8 × Diam: 3 3/4 in. (27 × 9.5 cm)
Overall Lid H: 5 5/8 × Diam: 3 13/16 in. (14.3 × 9.7 cm)
Overall Cup with Lid H: 15 15/16 in. (40.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.809
