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Palm Cup

Date:
7th–8th century
Culture:
Frankish
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/16 x 3 15/16 in. (5.6 x 10 cm)
Classification:
Glass-Vessels
Credit Line:
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number:
17.193.405
Not on view
From Niederbreisig, Germany.; Friedrich Queckenberg (Germany), Niederbreisig, Germany; Joseph Queckenberg, Niederbreisig, Germany; J. Pierpont Morgan (American), London and New York (until 1917)
Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue of a Collection of Germanic Antiquities Belonging to J. Pierpont Morgan. Paris: C. Berger, 1910. no. 405, p. 36.

Brown, Katharine R., Dafydd Kidd, and Charles T. Little, ed. From Attila to Charlemagne: Arts of the Early Medieval Period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. p. 280.

Timelines
Central Europe (including Germany), 500-1000 A.D.

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