Keywords: Russian - Standing-Cup with Cover - Walters 57806.jpg This piece has designs of birds and foliage in niello on the sides of the hexagonal cup Inside is gilt with the figure of a shrimp en plein air When the drinker is finished a shrimp stares at him from inside the cup The finial of the cover is designed as a nude child late Other date century 17 Early Modern silver parcel gilt niello cm 26 9 accession number 57 806 6143 Alexandre Polovtsoff Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov St Petersburg and Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Maker's Mark Stamped on base and upper rim with swan in oval place of origin Russia Walters Art Museum license Decorative and applied arts of Russia Collections of the Walters Art Museum Babies in art Silver cups |