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# Do you remember the cups of precious metals and exotic shells in the Kremlin Armoury?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pomnite-v-oruzheinoi-palate-est-takie-kubki-iz-dragotsennykh-metallov-i-dikovinykh-rakovin/
- Published: 2019-12-03T10:01:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:43:17.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Art, Moscow, Museums, New York

Do you remember the cups of precious metals and exotic shells in the Kremlin Armoury? Well, the Metropolitan Museum holds a vessel made of a gold-mounted nut shell from the Seychelles, fashioned in the sixteenth century by Viennese craftsmen