Pear Cup

Artist Oswald Haußner (German, 1637 - 1671)

Place of OriginGermany, Nuremberg

Date1650-1657

Dimensions9 1/16 × 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 in., 280.6g (23 × 11.5 × 9.5 cm, 280.6g)

MediumSilver

ClassificationMetalwork

Credit LineGift of Kleia R. and Kurt T. Luckner in honor of the Community of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Toledo, by exchange, and Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

2022.92

Not on View

DescriptionEmbossed, cast, engraved, cut, parcel-gilt silver. A cup shaped in the form of a pear. Three leaves form the foot of the cup, from which rises a slender stem entwined with a spiral reinforcing element, out of which grows the pyriform bowl of the cup. Three smaller pears are mounted on stalks to flank the cup. The motif of the small pears is an innovative addition to the traditional form of the pear cup.