Tea Cup and Holder (1908): Art, History and Details

Tea Cup and Holder (1908) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918).

The work and its context

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

Fabergé drew upon different historical styles and applied them to the same object type with a consistently high level of finesse. The holder for this tea glass incorporates a range of classicizing ornamental designs from the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the Greek key pattern on the horizontal bands and the intermittent palmettes.

Object facts

• Title: Tea Cup and Holder
• Date: 1908
• Creator attribution: House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918)
• Culture: Russian
• Type: Glass
• Technique: silver, glass
• Dimensions: Handle: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 2021.157

A detail from the museum

The history of the palmette, a motif resembling fan-shaped palm leaves, can be traced back to ancient Egypt.

Collection credit

Gift of the Hiller-Borneman Collection

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.