Aqua Cup

Material

Silver, gold-plated silver, sapphire, garnet, turquoise, agate · 1.5 kg

Silver tankard with an octopus-shaped handle, on purple cloth.

Samvel Hakobyan, People's Master of Armenia, has spent more than forty years building maquettes of Armenian churches. There are more than thirty: some carved in tufa, the same volcanic stone as the churches; others in silver and gold, with obsidian, agate, onyx and mother of pearl.

Work by Samvel Hakobyan