TUMBLER
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Lip and lower part are gilded. Body is nielloed with seven female figures dancing on a checkered floor partly nielloed and partly in silver. Background is stipppled and gilt. Around the upper part is a band of leaves in niello on a silver ground.
- Object name:
- TUMBLER
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- ca. 1835
- Size:
- 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.160
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK St. George and the Dragon Not recorded in file. City mark for Moscow. mark 84 Not recorded in file. Silver standard. Assayer's mark [Cyrillic initials over a date] H.A./18?? Not recorded in file. These are the initials of Nikolai Lukich Dubrovin, assayer from 1822 to 1855. See Postnikova-Loseva, p. 205, mark no. 2104. maker's mark [Cyrillic cap. initials] PD Not recorded in file. Unidentified maker.
- Credit line:
- Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1968