Two bottle coolers

Zacharias Deichman the Elder

1766 · Silver · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

These wine coolers are part of a set of at least nine (as recorded in 1907) belonging to the so-called Czarskoe Selo service, named after one of the numerous imperial summer residences around Saint Petersburg. The foliate loop handles still represent the naturalistic influence of Rococo decoration, whereas the restrained form and narrow guilloche borders announce the dawn of Neoclassicism.

Artist

Zacharias Deichman the Elder

Date

1766

Medium

Silver

Culture

Russian, St. Petersburg

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Sylvea Bull Curtis, 1981