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Vasilli Matveev Kunkin: Drinking Bowl (Kovsh)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Vasilli Matveev Kunkin  (1726–1761)  wikidata:Q45744420
 
Description Russian
Date of birth/death 1726 Edit this at Wikidata 1761 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q45744420
Title
Drinking Bowl (Kovsh)
Description
English: "Kovshi" are boat-shaped bowls or ladles, originally made of wood, which can be traced back to the 14th century.

This piece carries the double-headed eagle, state emblem of the Russian Empire. By the 18th century, large drinking bowls like this one were were no longer used as actual tableware but were rather awarded as gifts by the sovereign and proudly displayed at home by their recepients.

The inscription notes that Empress Elizabeth I (1709-1762) presented this sumptuous example to the merchant Konan Saveschkov, who had been a contractor for the army since 1752.
Date 1758 (Early Modern)
Medium parcel gilt on silver
Dimensions H: 15.3 cm (6 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
57.799
Place of creation Moscow, Russia
Object history
Exhibition history A Millennium of Christianity: Russian Art from The Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928
Inscriptions [Translation] in the cartouches: We, Elizabeth the First by the grace of God empress and sovereign of all Russia, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, awarded with this "kovsh" the Moscow merchant of the first guild Konon, son of Basil Sabelshchikov, for the discounts he has been making for six years since 1752 to the advantage of our most high interest at the Main Commissariat auctions for the supplying of our army, and so that he may also in the future show zeal in providing such supplies for the army to the advantage of our interest.
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