REVELERS GATHERING GRAPES, C/1 Specialty was a Czech Art Nouveau

was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist

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Carved with foliage and Celtic knots

No excavation in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) has attracted as much public attention as Sir Leonard Woolley’s work

REVELERS GATHERING GRAPES, C/1 Specialty was a Czech Art Nouveau"The groups of reveling couples on all sides, combined with the type of lid found on other examples of this Attic imperial sarcophagus, suggest a husband and wife were shown on top, as if reclining at a symposium on an elaborate couch." Source: Cornelis C. Vermeule (1978), "Sarcophagus: Revelers Gathering Grapes", in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong, et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 12 13. Made of cold cast resin. Hand painted.