Covered Cup (1688): Art, History and Details

Covered Cup (1688) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Johann Andreas Thelot (German, 1655–1734).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Thelot was one of the most important silversmiths active in Germany in the late 1600s and early 1700s. The decorations of this cup refer to the defeat of the Turks in Central Europe in the 1680s.

Object facts

• Title: Covered Cup
• Date: 1688
• Creator attribution: Johann Andreas Thelot (German, 1655–1734)
• Culture: Germany, Augsburg
• Type: Metalwork
• Technique: silver and gilt silver
• Dimensions: Overall: 40 cm (15 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1966.111

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• Bruhn, Thomas P. “A Silver Cup by Thélot.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 2 (February 1968): 53–59.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.