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Two-handled cup (skyphos) with Bacchic scene
Two-handled cup (skyphos) with Bacchic scene

Two-handled cup (skyphos) with Bacchic scene

A.D. 1–30
Medium/TechniqueSilver, with traces of gold leaf
DimensionsHeight: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.); diameter: 10.1 cm (4 in.); width: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund, Frank B. Bemis Fund, John H. and Ernestine Payne Fund and William E. Nickerson Fund
Accession number1997.83
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ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceEarly 1950s, said to have been sold by Kenneth John Hewett (dealer, b. 1919 - d. 1994), London, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hecht, Sr. and, in 1959, passed by inheritance to their son, Robert E. Hecht, Jr., Boston; 1997, sold by Robert Hecht to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 1997)