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Drinking Bowl (Korchik)
(Baroque Europe )
Such large cups, known in Russian as a korchik, were used for drinking wine and mead in wealthy households. Unusually, this one belonged to a woman.
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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), Saint Petersburg and Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Russia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.795