Tea Cup and Holder
maker House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918)
1908
- Medium
- silver, glass
- Classification
- Glass
- Dimensions
- Handle: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
- Culture
- Russian
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hiller-Borneman Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Fabergé drew upon different historical styles and applied them to the same object type with a consistently high level of finesse. The holder for this tea glass incorporates a range of classicizing ornamental designs from the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the Greek key pattern on the horizontal bands and the intermittent palmettes.
