Kovsh with a Cone Finial

Description The interior is decorated with an image of a swan plucking its feathers and also with patterns of flowers and tendrils in pastel colors, all over a cream-colored ground. The exterior, in contrast, is decorated with tulip blossoms over a turquoise ground.

Provenance Jean M. Riddell, Washington, D.C. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Maker's mark] In Cyrillic: DS; [Symbol] kokoshnik left, 88; [Maker's mark] On handle in Cyrillic: DS, 88

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Jean M. Riddell, 2010