TUMBLER
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
On one side is a medallion showing a public square with a column surmounted by the figure of an archangel. On opposite face is a medallion with a sailing vessel anchored in a harbor near a castle. Between these two medallions are scrolls and vines. All is in niello on silver against stippled and gilt ground. Interior if tumbler is gilt.
- Object name:
- TUMBLER
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1848
- Size:
- 8.1 × 7 cm (3 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.50
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION; MARK around rim: M.F. 1889 25th anniversary from the Schuster Family for the service?; on bottom: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, A.K./1848 in a square, 84 in a square, A.K. in script in a square; on rim: 84 and A.K.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973