The Wine Cup of Emperor Shah Jahan

Emperor Shah Jahan’s wine cup:

Am still confused about the way it is to be used as a cup for drinking … 

It is probably cups like these that inspired the proverb “there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip” 

From the V & A museum collection, London
Jan 2018

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