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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.157.6
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Tea Service: Creamer
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Pâte sur Pâte Service: Creamer
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1887
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Russia, St. Petersburg
Culture
Russian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/178540

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ceramic
Technique
Pâte sur pâte
Dimensions
8.89 x 10.64 x 8.26 cm (3 1/2 x 4 3/16 x 3 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel, III in memory of his grandmother, Mrs. Grace Dickerman Vogel
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.157.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Bulbous shape with applied, arched handle. Celadon (grey-green) colored body with round liver-colored reserve panels. Scenes of two rival cocks with a seated hen (partridge?) in the distance, possibly from Ivan Krylov's or Aesop's fable "The Cocks and the Partridge", and on the other side "The Fox and the Crow" in white pâte sur pâte. Border of wheat sheafs and morning glory flowers under spout. Gilded rim.

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