DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.6656#0033
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A small Flask or Bottle, silver gilt, in the form of a Partridge.
During the middle ages, a taste for singularity of form in the vessels intended for table use or
ornament, and for the decoration of the buffet, was universal in Germany; but it was not confined to
that country. It is related, that, at the installation of the first Patriarch of Moscow in 1588, an incredible
number of utensils in gold, large and small, in the forms of lions, elephants, bears, wolves, stags, hares,
pelicans, owls, vultures, pheasants, partridges etc. etc. were displayed; and a considerable collection of
such articles is still preserved in the Kremlin at Moscow. A like taste prevailed at the same period in
France, and Italy; and we read, that at the opening of the tomb of the wife of the Emperor Honorius
at Rome, in 1564, several articles of a similar kind were found, which would seem to indicate, that this
passion was not confined to mediaeval times. Little is known of the specimen here represented, which
is of silver gilt, covered externally with small pieces of mother of pearl, in the shape of feathers,
applied in the manner of scales: it is supposed to be of Flemish workmanship, and has been in the
collection since the year 1640.
A small Flask or Bottle, silver gilt, in the form of a Partridge.
During the middle ages, a taste for singularity of form in the vessels intended for table use or
ornament, and for the decoration of the buffet, was universal in Germany; but it was not confined to
that country. It is related, that, at the installation of the first Patriarch of Moscow in 1588, an incredible
number of utensils in gold, large and small, in the forms of lions, elephants, bears, wolves, stags, hares,
pelicans, owls, vultures, pheasants, partridges etc. etc. were displayed; and a considerable collection of
such articles is still preserved in the Kremlin at Moscow. A like taste prevailed at the same period in
France, and Italy; and we read, that at the opening of the tomb of the wife of the Emperor Honorius
at Rome, in 1564, several articles of a similar kind were found, which would seem to indicate, that this
passion was not confined to mediaeval times. Little is known of the specimen here represented, which
is of silver gilt, covered externally with small pieces of mother of pearl, in the shape of feathers,
applied in the manner of scales: it is supposed to be of Flemish workmanship, and has been in the
collection since the year 1640.