TUMBLER
Creator(s): Peter Andreas Möller (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Around the upper lip is an engraved garland of flowers on a stippled ground. The sides are plain except for an appliqued frieze of three dancing graces and a Cupid playing lyre repeated twice. The interior is washed in gilt.
- Object name:
- TUMBLER
- Made from:
- Silver -- silver gilt
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1830
- Size:
- 6.8 x 6.8 cm (2 11/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.112
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK bottom: crossed anchors and scepter for St. Petersburg; M K with dot in the middle in Cyrillic for Karpinskii Mikhail, essayer for 1812-1838, date 1830; P.M in Latin script for Möller Petr (active 1794-1830s), partially visible name Möller; scratch marks N 6509, N 2217; body of cup: 84, crossed anchors, P.M
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973