Traveling cup

Unknown

ca. 1503 · Coconut with gilt-silver mount · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Traveling cup — Unknown

The arms are those of a pope of the Piccolomini family of Siena, either Pius II (r. 1458–64) or Pius III (r. 1503), but more likely the latter.

Artist
Unknown
Date
ca. 1503
Medium
Coconut with gilt-silver mount
Culture
probably Italian, Rome
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Credit line
Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1949

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