MAKE A MEME View Large Image Hans Kellner - Covered "Grapes" Cup with Bacchus - Walters 571870 - Detail B.jpg In Nuremberg around 1600 such covered wine cups were called Trauben grapes cluster of grapes cups The cup was made from a sheet of silver beaten out into grape ...
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Keywords: Hans Kellner - Covered "Grapes" Cup with Bacchus - Walters 571870 - Detail B.jpg In Nuremberg around 1600 such covered wine cups were called Trauben grapes cluster of grapes cups The cup was made from a sheet of silver beaten out into grape shapes before gilding Covered cups of this immense size requiring more than three quarts of wine to fill it and impressive workmanship were commissioned as special gifts Kellner's talent as a sculptor as well as goldsmith comes out in the elegant figure of the Roman goddess Diana atop the cup and the figure which serves as the stem of the cup Bacchus Roman god of wine At his feet is the satyr Pan with his pipes ca 1600 Baroque gilt silver cm 74 accession number 57 1870 18225 France Russia ca 1736 by purchase in France excise and assay marks of St Petersburg Rothschild Collection prior to 1937 mode of acquisition unknown Rothschild Silver Sale Sotheby Co London April 1937 lot 226 Hearst Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Mr C C Rounds New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1958 by purchase Museum purchase 1958 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 Hearst the Collector Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 2008-2009 place of origin Nuremberg Germany Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Hans Kellner Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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