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Copies were used as design aids for artists, artisans and students in the government schools of design which were run under the aegis of the Department of Science and Art. \r\n\r\nAs a copy, the cup is an example of a 19th-century design model. Copies play a key role in helping us to understand the V&amp;A in its earliest days. The Museum grew largely out of the Great Exhibition in 1851 and, under the guidance of Henry Cole, sought to arrest the perceived decline in British design. The Museum aimed, initially, to collect 'modern manufactures' for the education of manufacturers, designers and the public, with a long-term goal of improving the quality and quantity of Britain's manufactured goods. Cole was also in charge of the Government Schools of Design, which he set about reforming. Cole passionately believed in the potential of both museums and the schools of design, to raise standards of taste.\r\n\r\nThe appointment of John Charles Robinson as curator of the Museum in 1853 heralded a slight change in focus. Under Robinson and Cole historic works of art were seen as just as instructive as contemporary work. For Cole and Robinson, if historic works of art could not be acquired, copies were a perfectly viable alternative. \r\n\r\nThe aim of the Museum was to present a lesson in world ornament. The Museum bought copies primarily as plaster casts, electrotypes and photographs but also bought cast tin, cast iron, brass rubbings and waxes as part of its growing collection of reproductions. This collection enabled students to look closely at both modern and historic objects that were otherwise inaccessible. ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"From the C19th Register: \"Reproduction in cast tin. - Two-handled Vase decorated in relief with scrollwork of foliage interspersed with birds and animals; the principal subjects are a stag attacked by hounds and a stag attacked by a bear, surmounted in each case by an eagle seizing a hare. The original, of silver repousse, discovered in 1895 at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, is in the Louvre, Paris. GREACO-ROMAN; 1st century. A. D. H. 6 in., W. 9 1/8 in. Bought, £5. 12<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. 1898-94.\"","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Copies of\r\nCup, 0–100 AD\r\nMaker unknown,\r\nParis, 1894\r\n\r\nBasin, 1545\r\nElkington & Co.,\r\nLondon, 1880\r\nThe Museum’s collection of copies is smaller than it used to be. The declining importance of copies during the 20th century and a desperate need for space after the building was damaged in the Second World War led to the destruction, sale or transfer of casts and electrotypes to other collections. In 1947 the V&A sold over 800 electrotypes to the film studio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer. These included copies of the cup (left), which was used in the film Ben Hur (1957). Over the decades, other studios followed suit. In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), the table in the Holy Grail cave is weighed down with electrotypes of silver from Oxford and Cambridge colleges, including a basin identical to this one (right). For the film industry, copies offer authenticity.\r\nCast tin\r\nCopied from the Roman silver\r\noriginal from\r\nPompeii in the Louvre, Paris\r\nMuseum no. Repro.1898:2-94\r\nElectrotype (electroformed\r\ncopper, electrogilt)\r\nCopied from the silver-gilt\r\noriginal in Corpus\r\nChristi College, Cambridge\r\nMuseum no. 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