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Kovsh Kovsh
This is a kovsh. It was made by V. Sasikov. It is dated 1861 and we acquired it in 1983. Its medium is silver, gold, niello. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
text from "Historical Overview" in Feeding Desire exhibition catalogue:
"In many countires at this time, espeically in Scandinavia and Russia, there were "national romantic" movements, which produced renewed interest in traditional local handicraft styles of earlier eras. As part of this movement, nielloed, or oxidized, silver spoons (figs. 74, 75), enameled spoons, and kovshs (Russian vessels, usually for drinking and ladeling, with a handle evoking the aspects of a ladle or a spoon) decoratied with trompe l'oeil motifs of Slavonic inscriptions (fig. 76) reappeared, especially in Russia."
This object was
donated by
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
It is credited Gift from the Thomas W. Evans Collection from University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
- Cono Brooch
- stoneware (gres ceramic), gold with neillo (alloy of silver,copper, and lead....
- The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
- 2016-34-9
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 4.5 × 14 × 7.9 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
It has the following markings
On underside of Kovsh: [1] “BC”, impressed (maker’s mark) [2] Saint George slaying a dragon, impressed (town mark, Moscow) [3] “H•A / 1861”, impressed (assayer’s mark, Ivan Vasilyevich Avdeyev, Moscow) [4] “84” in a square, impressed (standard mark, Russia) On handle of Kovsh: [1] “84” in a square, impressed (standard mark, Russia)
Cite this object as
Kovsh Kovsh; Made by V. Sasikov; Russia; silver, gold, niello; H x W x D: 4.5 × 14 × 7.9 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.); Gift from the Thomas W. Evans Collection from University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine; 1983-69-19
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
