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Tea Cup Holder
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About this work
Fabergé drew upon different historical styles and applied them to the same object type with a consistently high level of finesse. This holder for a 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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTea Cup Holder, 1908. House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918). Silver; handle: 7.6 cm (3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hiller-Borneman Collection, 2021.157.a
