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Both were probably sent to be decorated at the same Syrian workshop. The handles are a later addition (late 16th century).","historicalContext":"This object belongs to a genre of metalwork long known as 'Veneto-Saracenic' on the presumption that these elaborately inlaid wares were made by Muslim craftsmen ('Saracens') working in Venice. While this theory is no longer considered tenable, the trade links between Venice and the Middle East were indeed strong, and the Mamluk export industry based in Damascus was a major source of inlaid brassware for the Venetian market in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The popularity of these wares eventually inspired Venetian metalworkers to develop a host of imitation-Islamic brasses of their own.","briefDescription":"Middle East, Metalwork. The Priuli Wine-Cup, cup with pedestal foot and handles, both added later in Italy, brass with engraved and silver-inlaid decoration in horizontal registers of flowers, foliate scrollwork and cartouches of cruciforms and Arabic poetry inscriptions, Egypt or Syria, 1400-1500","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (eds.), <i>Europa und der Orient, 800-1900,</i> Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 1989, no. 4/99."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Rosamond E. Mack, <i>Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600</i>, London, 2002, p. 144, fig. 152."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"A. S. Melikian-Chirvani, 'Venise, entre l'Orient et l'Occident,' <i>Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales</i> 27 (1974): 109-26, figs 1, 3, 4A-B."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Carine Juvin, “Civilian Elite and Metalwork: A View from the Edge”, in <i>History and Society in the Mamluk Period</i>, ed. Bethany J. 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