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A great thanks to Steve/LongVIX goes out for finding this on ebay and allowing me to purchase it. This cup rocks like the rest and we appreciate it!
Pattern is available on my blog. Three of the four tea cup quilts I made for the pay it forward challenge on my blog. I drafted the pattern for the pieced teacup and saucer. The fabric is Urban Chicks Swell. www.tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com
Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) is the defender of the America's Cup, after their racing team, BMW Oracle Racing defeated the Swiss Alinghi team of Société Nautique de Genève in the 2010 America's Cup. On May 12, 2011, the Italian Club Nautico di Roma withdrew as the Challenger of Record and was replaced by the Royal Swedish Yacht Club.
Team Great Britain's Jamie Murray serves to Canada's Vasek Pospicil at a Davis Cup Rubber in Ottawa. Crouching down to avoid getting hit with a 200km/h tennis ball is Dominic Inglot, and defending for Canada is Daniel Nestor (background right).
shot with nikon d600 + nikkor 50mm 1.4 lens + godox ving v850 in 120cm umbrella octabox on 1/2 power + scrim to above left of camera + white reflectors to left & right.
Coffee cup taken at the Eagle Pub in Cambridge.
Taken on a walk round Cambridge with some folk from the www.flickr.com/groups/ppgeneral/ group.
Nikon D7000
Nikon 35mm lens
F1.7 @ 1/30 second exposure
ISO 100
Shot with two sb600's in small photoflex softboxes camera left and right about 45 degrees. Cup is sitting on top of glass which is about 6 inches above table. This was done to provide a little reflection.
Background is black foamcore about 5-6 feet behind set up.
Bittir (ancient Bethther), near Jerusalem, Roman, AD 5 – 15
A silver cup with relief decoration of homoerotic scenes, this object takes its name from its first owner in modern times, the art-lover and collector Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928).
After Warren's death the cup remained in private hands, largely because of the nature of the subject matter. Only with changing attitudes in the 1980s was the cup exhibited to the public, and in 1999 the British Museum was able to give this important piece a permanent home in the public domain.
The cup was originally made up of five parts - the thin-walled bowl with its high relief scenes, raised by hammering; an inner liner of thicker sheet silver with a solid rim, which would have made both drinking and cleaning easier; a pair of handles (now lost) and a cast foot soldered to the base.
The scenes on each side show two pairs of male lovers. On one side the erastes (older, active lover) is bearded and wears a wreath while the eromenos (younger 'beloved', passive) is a beardless youth. A servant tentatively comes through a door. In the background is a draped textile, and a kithara (lyre) resting on a chest.
In the scene on the other side the erastes is beardless, while the eromenos is just a boy. Auloi (pipes) are suspended over the background textile, and folded textiles are lying on a chest. The surroundings suggest a cultured, Hellenized setting with music and entertainment.
Representations of sexual acts are widely found in Roman art, on glass and pottery vessels, terracotta lamps and wall-paintings in both public and private buildings. They were thus commonly seen by both sexes, and all sections of society.
The Romans had no concept of, or word for, homosexuality, while in the Greek world the partnering of older men with youths was an accepted element of education. The Warren Cup reflects the customs and attitudes of this historical context, and provides us with an important insight into the culture that made and used it.
References
D. Williams, 'The Warren silver cup', British Museum Magazine: th-12, 35 (Autumn / Winter 1999), pp. 25-28
J.R. Clarke, Looking at lovemaking : constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 BC - AD 250 (London, University of California Press, 1998)
See this object in our Collection database online
Further reading
J. R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 BC–AD 250 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998)
J. R. Clarke, and M. Larvey, Roman Sex: 100 B.C. to A.D. 250 (New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 2003)
J. Davidson, The Greeks And Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality In Ancient Greece (Michigan, 2008)
M. Skinner, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture (Oxford, Blackwell, 2004)
D. Sox, Bachelors of Art: Edward Perry Warren and the Lewes House Brotherhood (London, Fourth Estate, 1991)
D. Williams, The Warren Cup (London, The British Museum Press, 2006)
Image copyright by Anne Fitzpatrick
Two of Anne's favorite things: tea and sharks.
Image drawn on the computer using "paint" software.
ingredienti:
miscela di caffè
acqua
zucchero
preparazione:
(sono pigra)
questa foto è per santissimo giaguaro