standing cup
- Museum number
- 1968,1207.1
- Title
- Object: Welford Cup
- Description
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Standing Cup or "font cup" (The Welford Cup); silver; with inscription around rim; inside bowl decorated with circular punch marks; trumpet foot.
- Production date
- 1518
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 89 millimetres (max. diameter of base)
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Diameter: 106 millimetres (max. diameter)
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Height: 100 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Would originally have had a cover and have been used as a grace cup. See also the ROCHESTER TAZZAS and a number of other font cups listed in Glanville, for which see bibliography.
Gallery Label, Gallery 46, Case 6, August 2005:
Cup, Silver, London, 1518-9
This is one of a type known as a ‘font’ cup, a ceremonial drinking cup engraved with a grace to be said at a meal. They were intended for domestic, and often communal, use at the dining table.
Found in 1968 at Welford, Northamptonshire, this cup was acquired by the British Museum under the laws of Treasure Trove.
MLA 1969,12-7,1
- Location
- On display (G46/dc6/s5/sh2)
- Condition
- Base and bowl damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1968
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1968,1207.1