Large silver wedding cup with fish mouth antique chalice

  

DO NOT HESITATE TO VISIT MY OTHER SALES. FREE shipping to France and U. Shipping only by Mondial Relay in Point Relais for: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal. Condition of the photos - Wear and tear from time and use - Needs cleaning - Good overall condition - Hallmarks to identify - Please look at the 12 photos in the description section. The more ancient ornate cups, intended for drinking, date back to the 13th century and are closer to chalices than cups in terms of shape.

They were reserved for the elite, that is, princes and prelates, who also used shallow but wide bowls to consume liquids. The models of drinking cups, whose shape is very close to the wedding cup, that is, low, wide, with two small handles, date back to the 14th century. At that time, they had an independent lid. Indeed, during the Renaissance and at the court of Fontainebleau, it was Italian goldsmiths who imported a model of a very wide circular cup, supported by figures, considered a decorative fancy. These added decorations then characterized the content of the vase: either water with a decoration representing a choice of dolphins, seashells, Neptune and/or nymphs, or wine with Bacchus and Ariadne. These luxurious objects were adapted to the sumptuous and pleasant atmosphere of the court. For ordinary customers, the cups were low, plain, and perched on a molded foot. In the 17th century, historians notice, however, that they had two handles cast and attached in consoles or scrolls. While the habit of drinking from a cup was lost towards the end of the 17th century, it then became customary and will remain so until the end of the 19th century, to offer the newlyweds a wedding cup. This cup is hemispherical and flattened, on a low foot, with two vertical handles in volutes topped by crooks or heads of either real or fantastic animals (such as chimeras). Wedding cups are very rarely decorated on the body, but the edges of the foot almost always are: friezes of leaves, lines of courses, stamped ovals, gadroons, cutouts, lines of pearls, friezes of laurel leaves woven in a crown. The outer edge of the wedding cup often carries an engraved inscription: the most common indicates the name of the bride or her initials, as well as the date of the wedding. Sometimes the name of the groom or his initials and the name of the village where the union was celebrated are found.

Such objects measure 9 to 20 cm in diameter. And it is now established that some cups can hold exactly half a pint, that is, a quarter of a liter. Furthermore, the wedding cup does not have a lid. (Source of the writings: Objects of the past).

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