Cups in Antiquity (Image Gallery) - Ancient History Encyclopedia
Cups in Antiquity
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Image Gallery
Cups were a part of everyday life in the ancient world, just as they are today but craftworkers and artists were often challenged to use their talents to produce especially decorative and beautiful examples. In this gallery of 24 images we showcase a wide range of cups from Egypt to Japan, illustrating the extraordinary imagination and technical skill that went into producing a cup in faience, pottery, glass or gold. These masterpieces would have become conversation pieces in themselves and offered a host the chance to wow guests with their wealth and fine taste.
Roman Two-handled Glass cup
Images in this Gallery
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Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 07 March 2016 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.