Bottle Item Number: Ch143 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Earthenware bottle shaped as a double headed crowned eagle facing outwards, outspread wings. Openings at central crown and in beaks. Purple-brown base, chest, wing, head markings. Yellow breast feathers and crown. Blue on wings and crown. Legs hold a sceptre and an orb.
History Of Use
Bottle shaped as the double-headed eagle of the Russian House of Romanov, attributed to the Hutterites of Vishenka, Ukraine, who fled there from Romania in the eighteenth century.
Cultural Context
Decorative; functional.
Specific Techniques
tin-glazed
Item History
- Made in Vishenka, Ukraine between 1750 and 1800
- Owned by Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg
- Owned by Walter C. Koerner before December 2, 1988
- Received from Walter C. Koerner (Donor) on December 2, 1988
What
Who
- Culture
- Slavic
- Previous Owner
- Ernst Rudiger Starhemberg and Walter C. Koerner
- Received from
- Walter C. Koerner (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Vishenka, Ukraine
When
- Creation Date
- between 1750 and 1800
- Ownership Date
- before December 2, 1988
- Acquisition Date
- on December 2, 1988
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics; earthenware; tin-glaze
- Condition
- excellent
- Accession Number
- 1417/0099