Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- An angel stands upon clouds in front of a scrollwork escutcheon with a glory of rays. He holds an aspergillum in his raised right hand, and the bowl in his left. The bowl is suspended on three chains which are fastened to cherubim who are applied to the brim of the bowl.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1815–1870
- Credit Line
- Gift of George A. Hearn
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 24 × 16.7 × 7.8 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- stoup
- Type
- stoup
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