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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
On View
Not on view
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)
mid-late 17th century
probably 17th century
17th century
about 950–1050
12th century
1653–54 (?)
1653–54 (?)
19th century
about 1750