Cup
date: label: date cup made
content: 1839
label: date cover made
content: 1848
notes: label: Description
content: Silver-gilt and niello tulip-shaped covered cup with a cast S scroll grotesque handle and stepped circular pedestal base; low-domed, wide-rimmed cover has a cast flower knop or finial. A military figure on horseback, facing left with name or title in cyrillic below, is depicted in a circular reserve on front of body; rest of body and cover are filled with scrolls, foliage and flowers on a snakeskin ground. Gilt washed interior. Body and cover are by the same maker, but have different assay marks. Inside of cover is struck with four marks: "AK" in raised Cyrillic script in a rectangle, "A•K / 1848(?)" in a rectangle, "84" in a clipped-corner rectangle, and St. George slaying the dragon in a clipped-corner rectangle. Cup has three marks on front below rim, "AK", "84" and St. George, and three marks on underside of base, "84", "Н•д / 1839(?)" in raised Cyrillic in a rectangle, and "AK".
label: Description
content: Piece made in Moscow, but maker not identified. Cover assayed by Andrey Antonovich Kovalsky (assayer, 1821-1856), and cup by Nicolai Dubrovin (assayer, 1822-1855).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Russia: Moskva, Moscow
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Grace
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0603
label: catalog number
content: 68.0603
label: accession number
content: 202470
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash material)
label: Physical Description
content: niello (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; 14.9225 cm x 13.97 cm x 9.2075 cm