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This wonderful cup with rich ornamentation in the shape
of an opened flower of aquilegia (Akeleipokal) on a two-level base was
made by an unknown Nuremberg master in the 1590s. Cups of such a form
were executed in Nuremberg as a test for the rank of master and were called
chefs-d'oeuvre. The cup's chasing is especially skillful, its bowl is
richly decorated with ornamentation, cherubs and scenes from ancient myths
showing Apollo and Daphne, Meleager and Atalanta, Venus and Adonis, Pyramus
and Thisbe, Narcissus and the Beheading of the Thousand-eyed Argus.
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