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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