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Object Name: 
Decanter with Stand and Stopper
Title: 
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Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
96.3.1
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.9 cm, W: 17.3 cm, Diam: 14.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1993-1994
Web Description: 
Metal mount was made by Yurji Tyupin. Object brought back from Russia by Dwight Lanmon, purchased from the artist's widow--Natalia Buzahovskaia. Alternative spelling of artist's name: Vasilji Kryukov. another example of this design is owned by the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow. Artist was a pupil of Smirnov.
Provenance: 
Krjukov, Mrs. Vasilji, Source
1996-01-15
Color: 
Material: 
Inscription: 
(Description) Circular with hammer and scycle, star and cornucopea with grain and "CCCP" and second running elk in circle.
stamp
base stamped twice
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass, opaque white enamel, metallic silver; non-lead glass, metal, probably silver-plate; blown, tooled, ground, enameled, fabricated, assembled. (a) Pivoting top-shaped stoppered vessel suspended on silver stand; flareded lip ground and polished flat, straight-sided collared neck, sloping shoulder extends to hemispherical upper body, at mid-point walls are inset, then extend sharply out at a right angle and past the diameter of the top half forming a narrow notch, walls then taper in towards base forming a conical lower half of the body which is decorated with narrow bands of concentric opaque white circles; at mid-point of body (filling the notch formed in the wall) the glass is suspended from a circular mount formed of solid metal tubing, attached on opposite sides of the circle are two short right-angles of the same metal extending away from the glass and upward, a fitting with a small disk-shaped washer connects the side ends of each right-angle with two longer, parallel side pieces of tubing (attachment allows the short right-angles, and thus the glass, to swing freely from side pieces), that extend downward and connect to a heavy, thick, disk-shaped metal base with narrow curved base rim, underside has a deep circular inset, at center are stamped markings; glass is suspended so that tip of glass is only slightly above metal base and can be pivoted for pouring; (b) solid ball stopper with collared solid, short ground shank, base is slightly concave with edge ground and polished flat; glass is unsigned; stamped on underside of metal base at center is a circle enclosing a hammer and sicle flanked by two curved palm branches; adjacent is a smaller circle enclosing stylized profile of Scythian-style running stag.