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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.157.2.A-B
People
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
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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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