Translation: Antique large fish-shaped wedding cup chalice goblet dish

  

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Condition of photos - Signs of wear and use - Needs cleaning - Good overall condition - Punches to identify - Take a good look at the 12 photos in the item description box. Older carved cups, intended for drinking, date back to the 13th century and are closer to chalices in terms of shape. They were reserved for the elites, namely princes and prelates, who also used shallow but wide bowls for consuming liquids.

The models of drinking cups, which are very similar in shape to wedding cups, that is, low, wide, with two small handles, date back to the 14th century. At that time, they had an independent lid.

In fact, 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 contents of the vase: either water with a decoration representing dolphins, seashells, Neptune and/or nymphs, or wine with Bacchus and Ariane. 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 noticed, however, that they had two melted and applied handles in consoles or spirals. While the habit of drinking from a cup was lost by the end of the 17th century, it then became customary and would remain so until the end of the 19th century to offer newlyweds a wedding cup. This cup is hemispherical and flattened, with a low foot, equipped with two vertical handles in volutes topped by crosses or animal heads, either real or fantastical (such as chimeras). Wedding cups are very rarely decorated on the body, but the edges of the foot almost always are: friezes of leaves, course lines, stamped ovals, gadroons, scrollwork, lines of pearls, friezes of intertwined laurel leaves.

The outer edge of the wedding cup often bears an engraved inscription: the most common one indicates the name of the bride or her initials, as well as the date of the wedding. Sometimes the name or initials of the groom and the name of the village where the union was celebrated are also found. Such objects measure from 9 to 20 cm in diameter.

And it is now proven that certain cups can hold the exact measure of half a pint, that is, a quarter of a liter. In addition, the wedding cup does not have a lid.

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