{"data": {"id": 135423, "accession_number": "1958.422", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Two-Handled Cup and Cover, 1677. England, London. Silver and silver gilt; overall: 17.2 x 11.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Eugene R. Miles in honor of William Mathewson Milliken in appreciation of his interests in Cleveland artists, 1958.422", "current_location": "203A British Painting and Decorative Arts", "title": "Two-Handled Cup and Cover", "creation_date": "1677", "creation_date_earliest": 1677, "creation_date_latest": 1677, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["England, London"], "technique": "silver and silver gilt", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Silver", "measurements": "Overall: 17.2 x 11.5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.172, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.115, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 311637, "title": "All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection", "description": "<i>All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995).", "opening_date": "1994-11-23T05:00:00"}, {"id": 306699, "title": "British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)", "description": "<i>British Gallery Reinstallation  (June 2020)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).", "opening_date": "2020-06-30T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "No legacy exhibitions.", "opening_date": null}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Mrs. Eugene R. [Elizabeth E.] Miles [1896-1978], Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1958", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1958-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Cups of this kind are often called sleeve cups since the ornament is incorporated into a pierced and chased hollow tube that slides over the gilded body of the cup.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Due to its size and ornament, this vessel may have functioned as a caudle cup, containing a mixture of ale or wine and bread, oatmeal, eggs, sugar, and spices that was given to women after childbirth to help them regain their strength. The scrolling foliage and exotic birds along the exterior of this cup were likely based on prints circulating in the 1600s. The reclining female figures capping the handles and the acanthus bud finial on the lid recall common architectural motifs.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60780920"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1958.422-two-handled-cup-and"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "\u201cAnnual Report of the Year 1958.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 46, no. 6 (June 1959): 111\u2013158.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 128", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142346"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 128", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n152"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 128", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n152"}, {"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. \u201cGifts to the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 371\u2013383.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 381", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152561"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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