A silver Sibylline Beaker

RUSSIAN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A silver Sibylline Beaker
Russian, early 18th century
Tapering octagonal, on plain spreading foot and reeded base, each side with engraved cartouches with the Persian, Lybian, Delphic, Cumaean, Cimmerian, Erythaean, Hellespontine and Phrygian sibyls with Slavonic caption above, within repoussé, chased and engraved floral and foliate sprays, with slightly flaired lip, apparently unmarked
9¼in. (23.5cm.) high
461.5 gr.

Lot Essay

Based on a Dutch original, this goblet is similar to an example formerly in the collection of the Counts Sheremet'ev in their Petersburg house on the Fontanka now in the Hermitage; see Russian Silverware in the Hermitage Collection, plate 11; and for another see Catalogue of the Exhibition of old Russian Art, (Moscow, 1913), no.19, dated 1691, formerly in the Mironov collection; also A. von Solodkoff, Orfèvrerie russe du XVIIe au XIXe siècle, (Fribourg, 1981), plate 1.

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