2000.157.2.A-B: Tea Service: Pot with Lid
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2000.157.2.A-B
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Tea Service: Pot with Lid
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Pâte sur Pâte Service: Pot with Lid
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1887
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Russia, St. Petersburg
- Culture
- Russian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/178577
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ceramic
- Technique
- Pâte sur pâte
- Dimensions
- 16.19 x 16.35 x 10 cm (6 3/8 x 6 7/16 x 3 15/16 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
- 2000.157.2.A-B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pear shaped with domed lid, ball finial, arched applied handle and curved spout. Celadon (grey-green) colored ground with round liver-colored reserve panels with white pâte sur pâte scenes from Ivan Krylov's or Aesop's Fables. One side depicts "The Cat and the Mice" and the other has an unidentified scene of five mice with sacs, one holding a hoop and mouse head and one holding a sail. Borders of ivy leaves and berries. Gilded rim and top of finial.
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