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Standing-Cup with Cover
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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.
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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. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 12/1/1940 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 9/17/1951 | Treatment | cleaned; coated |
| 10/19/1959 | Treatment | cleaned; coated |
| 1/15/2004 | Treatment | cleaned; other |
Geographies
Russia (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H:10 9/16 in. (26.9 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929
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.
57.806