TUMBLER
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
There are plain bands, top and bottom, with turning near the lip. The rest of the sides are decorated in repousse with rococo scrolls, flowers, leaves and two eagles, one with wings outspread, the other alighting on a cluster of flowers. The designs are plain, stippled or dotted, partially gilded. Interior is gilded.
- Object name:
- TUMBLER
- Made from:
- Silver gilt
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1753
- Size:
- 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.19
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK underneath: three hallmarks, 1. St. George and the Dragon right or Moscow 1753 (?), 2.V D in Cyrillic for unknown workmaster 1741-1753, 3. MB in Cyrillic for Borobschikov Mikhail, Moscow essayer in 1755-1768
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973