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Lycurgus cup article in Smithsonian magazine

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flying free:
ok here's a pic of it with removed foot

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=755705&objectid=61219

And I never realised it has a crack in it (for all those worried about buying damaged glass  ;D )

I love the figuring on the metal foot and rim - reminds me of Art Nouveau French silver work - perhaps it was the inspiration for some of it before it really went all Art Nouveau full swing.
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flying free:
Currently looking at research into dichroic glass for my jug and came across this more complete article on the Lycurgus cup:
http://master-mcn.u-strasbg.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lycurgus.pdf


It's an amazing piece of glass.

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Tigerchips:
It's long been rumoured that the Greeks had a much more advanced civilisation than previously thought. Just google Antikythera mechanism. Ancient Egypt too, with it's advanced machining.

flying free:
It's amazing.  ;D

Skills known and lost for whatever reason.  I'm sure it's the same for many things.
I see glass made hundreds of years ago and just think wow, the maker's thoughts and desire to push the boundaries to create something new was no different then to now.  They'd have fitted right in perfectly if they were living now.  Perhaps then, where there are differences between past societies and ours, it is just a numbers game (i.e. there are more now than then as a proportion of the population) caused by lack of educational opportunity?  Rather than society being any less developed in thinking.

I probably haven't expressed myself very well  :-[

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