GOBLET
Creator(s): Fedor Rückert (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
Outside surface is covered with a floral design in filigree enamel, done in 17th century manner. Lower part is melon-shaped, decorated with rosettes and leaves in filigree ename against a background of alternately blue and red. The stem and the base are partly gilded and partly decorated with filigree enamel in formalized floral pattern.
- Object name:
- GOBLET
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- ca. 1880
- Size:
- 19.4 x 6 cm (7 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.49
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- MARK edge of the foot: St. George left, 88, FR for Ruckert Fedor Silver mark and city coat of arms are in a rectangular frame, identical to the mark #2018 (Postnikova-Loseva) that dates it to 1880s.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973