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Two double cups
Roman, first century A.D.
Silver
Height 4 1/8 inches (105 mm);
diameter 3 1/2 inches (89 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913; AZ050.1-2
See CORSAIR catalog record for this item »
Each cup consists of an inner liner and an outer casing, which is worked in repousseĢ. The original silver gilt has largely worn away, and the double handles are missing. The decoration consists of cranes feeding among wheat or sorghum, hunting snakes, a lizard, butterflies, and a grasshoper. On one side of one cup, the birds stand beside poppies.
Although the cups were found in Rome, the are believed to be the work of a Greek craftsman.
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