Description

The conical cup with a rounded base has an elaborate figurative notch cut decoration. The edge that had been chipped off from the glassmaker's pipe had been reground; two parallel grooves run underneath the edge.

The scene shows three identical men dressed in togas, each carrying a bundle of plants in their right hand. There are pillars between the figures. The depiction could be a sacrificial scene.

The cup and its related examples were probably made in a workshop in Cologne. Due to the idiosyncratic hairstyle of the characters on all the mugs, the name “Style of the Hedgehog Head Workshop“ prevailed in the literature.