Beaker
A wave pattern, suggestive of rippling water in a slight breeze or a lamb’s fleecy coat, covers the body of this beaker. This type of decoration is unique to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hungarian and Transylvanian silver. It is a variation of the snakeskin pattern: both are designed to provide better grip. A closely-related beaker formerly in the collection of Yves Saint Laurent is numbered, as are other examples, which indicates it was part of a larger set. The present example was once in the Andrássy collection.
Artwork Details
- Title: Beaker
- Date: ca. 1656
- Culture: Hungarian
- Medium: Silver, partly gilded
- Dimensions: Height: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
- Classification: Metalwork-Silver
- Credit Line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010
- Object Number: 2010.110.28
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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