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Drinking or scooping horn

A scoop or drinking vessel made from the horn of a water buffalo with a moulded, twisted tip and a cork stopper. Three incised decorative bands around the rim of the vessel. Twelve incised lines and a cross on the lower part of the vessel wall. An illegible label also affixed to the vessel wall. Provenance: Africa (?). The object belongs to the estate of the senior general practitioner Georg Wilke (*1859 Dresden +1938 Rochlitz), which initially went to the teaching collection of the Rochlitz secondary school after his death and was transferred to the collection of Rochlitz Castle in the 1960s.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
vessels (containers)
Dimensions
H x W: 23.5 cm, D: 10.5 cm
Material/Technique
Horn
Current location
State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony gGmbH, Rochlitz Castle
Inventory number
Roc_E_VI_000069
Related object(s)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1875-1900
    where
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED
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