Item of the month: Silver cup
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Now we welcome an object that has been outside the walls of the Silvermuseet for almost 50 years. This beautiful silver cup was loaned from the Silvermuseet to the Västerbotten Museum in the 70s and has been exhibited and also stored there.
Drinking vessels like this one were used to confirm a trade agreement or at other festive occasions. It was filled with brandy and passed around among the participants, who passed it between each other.
The cow was made in 1840 by Erik Linderoth the Younger in Umeå. It is gilded inside and on the grooved girdle around the body there are six brackets for hanging leaves. Today, however, only three leaves remain, but if we use our imagination, we can imagine what it once looked like when all the leaves surrounded the vessel.
The cow was owned by Countess Ingeborg Lewenhaupt, Aske, who gave it to her sister-in-law, Eva Lewenhaupt née Hermelin. Eva in turn gave it to the Silvermuseet in 1972. The museum man Einar Wallquist offered to deposit it at the Västerbotten Museum because they lacked a similar one. And so it was.
