CUP ON CLAW AND BALL FEET
Creator(s): Unknown
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Sides have leaves, flowers and fruit in silver gilt engraved on nielloed background. Around the top is a vine scroll in niello. Three ball feet.
- Object name:
- CUP ON CLAW AND BALL FEET
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1777
- Size:
- 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.11
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on bottom: crossed anchors and scepter for St. Petersburg with date 1777, 80 for silver standard, E.F./E.b. (in a square) for assayer
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973