2000.157.6: Tea Service: Creamer
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.157.6
- People
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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
- Permissions
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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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