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The silversmiths of such local guilds as Inverness and Perth frequently mounted them in silver, as may be seen from the hallmarks on the existing examples. [1] Commemorative quaichs awarded as prizes, or given as gifts, are more commonly made of pewter or silver. These prize cups are rarely used for actual drinking. [1]
A chalice (from Latin calix 'cup', taken from the Ancient Greek κύλιξ 'cup') is a drinking cup raised on a stem with a foot or base. Although it is a technical archaeological term, in modern parlance the word is now used almost exclusively for the cups used in Christian liturgy as part of a service of the Eucharist, such as a Catholic mass ...
Porcelain loving cup for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee (1897) A loving cup is a large cup with two arching handles. [1] It can describe a shared drinking container traditionally used at weddings and banquets, often made of silver. Loving cups are also given as trophies to winners of games or competitions. [2]
The Fairy Cup of Kirk Malew, Isle of Man. In this version a person attends a fairy feast but does not drink from the fairy cup - at morning he is left alone with the cup. The Silver Cup, Isle of Man. The protagonist follows fairy folk who had been stealing milk from his cows to their fairy hill. After attending their feast he steals the cup as ...
This silver-gilt object is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was apparently made at Antioch in the early 6th century, and is of double-cup construction, with an outer shell of cast-metal open work, enclosing a plain silver inner cup. When it was first recovered in Antioch in 1910, it was touted as the Holy ...
Scottish silver stirrup cups, Hallmarked Edinburgh, 1917. A stirrup cup is a "parting cup" given to guests, especially when they are leaving and have their feet in the stirrups. [1] It is also the traditional drink (usually port or sherry) served at the meet, prior to a traditional foxhunt. The term can describe the cup that such a drink is ...
Take a second to look at the plastic cups stashed in your cabinets for a future backyard party. You’ll notice several lines on each 16 oz. cup.
Others did not, and were merely used as drinking cups, with the characteristic, shared by many early cup forms, that they were "unstable" and could not usually be set down on a surface without spilling their contents. The English word rhyton originates in the ancient Greek word ῥυτόν (rhy̆tón or rhŭtón).