untitled ( 3 wine cups )

untitled ( 3 wine cups based on 2^nd century BC Chinese wine cups)

copper, enamel paint

1. white wine cup detail : whitework Scottish 19^th Century embroidery; engravings taken from illuminated manuscripts by Hildegard of Bingen 

2. blue wine cup detail : Yoruba textile; engraving from a 16^th Century English embroidery

3. black wine cup detail : Tanshifa 18th Century Algiers embroidery; engravings from a 19^th Century Chinese embroidery