Print 16th-century ivory cup
Object number
LDSAL2020.28.13
Production date
Late 18th century
Material
paper
ink
printer's ink
ink
printer's ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving
Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 374mm
Width: 281mm
Width: 281mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Inscriptio in Circuitu Calicis.
Inscription content
Sacrum hunc Calicem Eburneum
Antiquae pietatis Monumentum Sculpturaeq, forma insignem aere perennari voluit quem penes asservatur
Ric. Rawlinson. L.L.D. Oxon. R:S.S.
Antiquae pietatis Monumentum Sculpturaeq, forma insignem aere perennari voluit quem penes asservatur
Ric. Rawlinson. L.L.D. Oxon. R:S.S.
Inscription content
Soc. Antiq: Lond. D.D.
R Rawlinson L.L.D.
R Rawlinson L.L.D.
References
Reference (free text)
Ezio Bassani, African Art and Artefacts in European Collections, 1400-1800 (London: British Museum Press, 2000), no. 217, p. 55.
Reference (free text)
Ezio Bassani and William B Fagg, Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory (New York: Center for African Art, 1988), no. 22, p. 227.
Illustration (Photograph), p. 227.
