Palm Cup
Unknown Artist
7th–8th century
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 2 9/16 x 4 1/8 in. (6.5 x 10.5 cm)
Classification
Glass-Vessels
Culture
Frankish
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.193.337
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting world of early medieval craftsmanship with the *Palm Cup*, a delicate glass vessel created by an unknown Frankish artist between the 7th and 8th centuries. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Medieval Art department, this petite treasure measures just 2 9/16 x 4 1/8 inches (6.5 x 10.5 cm), perfect for intimate sipping in a noble household. Gifted by financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917, it whispers of the Frankish Merovingian era, when Germanic rulers blended Roman legacies with emerging European identities in what is now France and beyond. Franki...