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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.157.1-6
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Tea Service
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Pâte sur Pâte Service: Tray
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1887
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Russia, St. Petersburg
Culture
Russian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/142297

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ceramic
Technique
Pâte sur pâte

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
2000.157.1-6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Quatrefoil shape. Celadon (grey-green) colored with squarish, liver-colored reserve panel in center. White pâte sur pâte decoration of dragonflies and butterflies in lobes with tendrils, leaves, berries and lillies of the valley surrounding reserve. Scene depicts a rabbit seated on a birds' nest floating on a pond with distant bullrushes, pulled by a duck with a strand in its beak. Gilded rim.

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