Beaker Depicting Eight Sybils
Unknown Russian, Russian
1682
Silver gilt
Overall: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, Class of 1889
159.2.19461
Geography
Place Made: Russia, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Furnishings: Household Accessory
Research Area
Decorative Arts
On view
Course History
HIST 7.19, Medieval Paris, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, exhibited in conjunction with Russian Art and Russian Studies in America, 1917-1945, A Symposium; The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2-4, 2008.
Gold: Materiality, Morality, and Metaphor, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 14, 2024.
Publication History
Anne Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, Washington, D.C.: Hillwood Museum and Gardens Foundation, 2011, figure 26, pp 48-49, ill. p. 49.
Published References
See Postnikova-Loseva (1983) p. 74 (8-sided stopa beaker with Sybils); for marks see Postnikova-Loseva (1983) #1931, date 1682-1683.
Provenance
Collected by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett (1866-1960); given to present collection, 1959.
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