WALL CASE A. Replica marble ‘moustache cup’

Accession Number AN1936.570
Year 1936
Dimensions 10.7 cm x 14 cm
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Replica of a marble cup found at Knossos. Evans referred to it as a ‘moustache cup’ because of the incurving lip. In the Victorian period moustache cups were produced which had an internal ledge to keep a gentleman’s moustache dry when drinking.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, p. 58, fig. 27b

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 13