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SILVER-PLATED COPPER CUP
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SILVER-PLATED COPPER CUP
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €10,000
Voluntary lot
Description
SILVER-PLATED COPPER CUP
Roman art, 4th century AD
A cup with a fluted, carinated body resting on a conical pedestal; the body is decorated with a repoussé frieze of palmettes and flowers.
Length: 18.5 cm
Weight: 240 g
Provenance: Former British private collection, acquired in the 1970s
Gorny & Mosh, Munich, 22 June 2007: lot 38
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2009
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA319)
The Banquet: From Marseille to Rome, Pleasure and Power Games, Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France, 3 December 2016–17 June 2017
Bibliography: Gorny & Mosh, Auction 158, Munich, 22 June 2007, lot 38
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2008, vol. XIX, p. 69, fig. 161
J. Spier, “Roman Silverware” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 145 and p. 152, fig. 5
G. Dekert (ed.), “Plaisir et jeux de pouvoir”, *Le banquet de Marseille à Rome*, 2016, p. 86, cat. 25
A Roman silvered copper goblet,
4th century AD
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