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Crystal dipper (kovsh).   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Prague or Germany)Unknown author
Title
Crystal dipper (kovsh).
label QS:Lfr,"Coupe à puiser en cristal (kovch)."
label QS:Len,"Crystal dipper (kovsh)."
label QS:Lpl,"Kryształowy czerpak (kowsz)."
label QS:Lde,"Trinkschale aus Kristall (Kowsch)."
Date turn of the 16/17th century
Medium gold, enamel and aventurine on crystal
Dimensions 8 × 16 cm (3.1 × 6.2 in)
institution QS:P195,Q686548
Current location
Schatzkammer
Accession number
355
Object history

turn of the 16/17th century: commissioned by Rudolph II, Prague (?)

before 1632
date QS:P,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: given to Sigismund III Vasa, Warsaw (?)

1642: transferred to Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Neuburg an der Donau

before 1747
date QS:P,+1747-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1747-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: transferred to Schatzkammer, Munich
Notes A dipper in the form of Russian kovsh could be produced as luxury gift. It was used for taking up mead or wine out of a barrel or for the liturgical drinking of holy water. The hold is in the form of a dragon, the edge in gold is adorned with scenes of hunting. Hunters dressed according to contmporary Russian fashion.
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