Date : near 1620
Material : Silver, Gilded silver, Steel, Wood
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
Renaissance
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Objet(s) d'Art
Object (Automate)
Vitrine : V03
Area related
Augsbourg (Germany)
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The stag has a hollow body and a removable head and can be used as a drinking cup. When used in drinking games, a mechanism in the base was wound up and the automaton run until it came to halt before one of the participants who had to drink everything in the cup. Diana's bow, quiver and arrow are late nineteenth century in date.
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