Dear Friends!

Take a trip to our virtual museum during your coffee or tea break and make your #quarantinediscoveries!

Admire unique cultural assets of the Museum Fund of Ukraine!

A goblet is a large glass, a cup. Usually, such vessels, including German fanciful goblets, served as gifts and interior decoration. In Ukraine, among the hetman's elite and church hierarchy, silverware was used not only as a commodity but also as a valuable contribution to churches.

The Preserve’s collection contains several dozen artifacts of Western European jewelers of the 16th-18th centuries. One of them is a silver-gilded embossed chased goblet in the form of a bunch of grapes crafted by a German master from Augsburg in the 17th century. This monument got to the Preserve’s collection from St. Nicholas Slupsky Monastery in Kyiv.

The stem of the goblet reminds a twig with two leaves, the third one was lost. Its base is made in the form of a raised up trefoil with shaped edges. The removable cover has a top in the form of a rosette with petals and a round smooth ball.

This interesting piece of European jewelry art of the 17th century was exhibited at various times as a part of artistic silver from the collection of the Preserve. Today the goblet is presented at the exhibition "Princes of Ostroh. The European Dimension of the Ukrainian Icon", which you can visit after the quarantine.

Meanwhile,

let’s #stayathome and discover the beauties of the Preserve’s collection together!

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