SMALL CUP FROM THE DERZHAVA SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) , Ippolit Antonovich Monigetti (Designer)
On view in: Second Floor Hallway
About this object
The bulbous cup features an elaborated design of ropes and chains in gold, medallions with an anchor or the Imperial orb on a blue ground, and rectangular panels in green. On the thumbpiece to the handle is the crowned cipher of Alexander II on a blue ground.
- Object name:
- SMALL CUP FROM THE DERZHAVA SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1871-1873
- Size:
- 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.343.10
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK Crowned cypher of Alexander II [A II] [underside, in underglaze green] MARK: W II in gold and three dots [Underside]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973