Cup
M. D. O.
ca. 1750
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 7 × 4 7/8 in. (17.8 × 12.4 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Silver
Culture
Portuguese, Oporto
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1913
Accession Number
13.23.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
M. D. O.
**M. D. O.** was a Portuguese silversmith active in Oporto (Porto) during the mid-eighteenth century. Little is known about his personal life or training, as no records of his birth, apprenticeship, or family connections have surfaced in historical sources. His maker’s mark appears on a single documented work, a silver cup dated circa 1750, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...