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
Associated place
Sierra Leone
Africa
Africa
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.
