Chinese Han lacquer cup
AD 4 · Resource
A delicate lacquered 'eared' wine cup made in an imperial Han workshop, its inscription naming the craftsmen and date. It shows the industrial-scale luxury production of the Han dynasty.
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- Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Colosseum opens in Rome (80)
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69 BCE)
- Virgil's Aeneid (19 BCE)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Reign of Nero (54)