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LOT 0649

Etruscan Bronze Cup

7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.

3 3/4 in. (137 grams, 94 mm wide).

With rounded base and cylindrical body gently tapering towards the top. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex London, UK, collections, 1990s-2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. for similar Richter, G.M.A., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, New York, 1925, p.204, fig.541.

Footnotes

Such small cylindrical cups were destined for everyday use, and some bronze specimens of the same typology, were often engraved on their outer surface with groups of animals. A large variety of drinking-cups were in use among the ancients; Athenaeus in the eleventh book of his Deipnosophists gives a long list of names of such cups, but his descriptions are not sufficient to identify them with any known shapes; moreover, a great many appear to be fanciful names that had come into favour at the time.

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LOT 0649

Etruscan Bronze Cup

Sold for (Inc. bp): £208

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