BEAKER ON RING FOOT
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The ring foot is plain as is also a band around the top. There is turning near the lip. Around the tumbler are three medallions each with a canopy above and leaf scrolls to the right and left and below. The medallions have 1. Ganymede and the eagle, 2. Cupid with hammer and spear and 3. the phoenix. Between the canopies are animal marks and leaf scrolls.
- Object name:
- BEAKER ON RING FOOT
- Made from:
- Silver -- parcel gilt
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1751-1784
- Size:
- 18.1 cm (7 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.42
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK on foot: two hallmarks, 1. [transcription] St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, 2. [transcription]; bottom: several hallmarks, one apparently like no. 1, another [transcription], rest illegible
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973