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| Keywords: African - Carved Ram's Horn Cup with Lions and Mounted Rider - Walters 7218.jpg The exterior of this piece is intricately carved in low relief with a figure of a mounted nobleman and heraldic lions among leaf rinceaux The cup terminates in a carved bust This intriguing drinking cup is installed in the chamber of Wonders with objects from Asia and Africa Seventeenth-century collectors often could not be sure where objects obtained from sea captians and traders actually came from We don't know where this piece was made Do you between 1500 1700 Early Modern carved horn ram cm 8 26 accession number 72 18 34052 Henry Walters New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Mrs Henry Walters Sale New York May 1 1941 no 1025 Walters Art Museum 1941 by purchase Museum purchase formerly part of the Walters Collection 1941 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Asia Walters Art Museum license Lions in decorative arts Drinking horns Collections of the Walters Art Museum Unidentified art | ||||
