Cupamanist Power Workshop-Studio "Interce"

Cupamanes of the power workshop “Interce” Materials: silver 925 °. Production technique: casting for smelted models, polishing, patining. A cup holder - a stand covering and supporting a glass cup, in the most part, a pen that has a pen in order to hold a glass and enjoy hot tea without burning your palms. The exact date of the invention of the cup holder is unknown.At first, he performed a purely technical function, and in the subject that we know today, he took shape at the end of the eighteenth century.It is in this period that the first references to the cup holder are found, As an element of Russian tea drinking with independent artistic value. At the XIX and the beginning of the XX century (before the revolution), there is a heyday of this subject, as a work of decorative and applied art.The cup holders of the company Karl Faberge, Ovchinnikov, Khlebnikov and others made.They performed these items, both in the Russian style and Gothic or modern.