Drinking Horn
Artist Unknown
A drinking-horn with metal gilt mounts. The horn rests on claw feet. The rim of the horn is incised with lettering.
Date
15th century AD
Materials
Metal
Animal
Horn
Copper alloy (gilded)
Gilded
Size (cm)
Unknown
Location
First Floor
Collection
Hunt Museum Collection
Interpretive Video
Transcript
This drinking horn is like many others made in Europe between the 10th and 17th centuries. In northern Europe, from the 1400s onwards, many drinking horns had clawed feet and fancy Gothic-style decora...
Apollo - Genius of the Arts