Drinking Vessel Collection

A Feast. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, late 11th century, (1944). Creator: Unknown
A Feast. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, late 11th century, (1944). Scene from the embroidery depicting the Norman Invasion of England in 1066

Southern Teahouse, Japan, n. d. Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro
Southern Teahouse, Japan, n.d

Flagon, 1765 / 80. Creator: Attributed to William Will
Flagon, 1765/80. Attributed to William Will

Ancient Greek pottery, (1898). Creator: Unknown
Ancient Greek pottery, (1898). Figs 1-9: Forms of Greek vases. Fig 1: Amphora, vessel for oil, wine etc. Fig 2: Hydria, vessel for carrying water. Fig 3: Urn, a cinerary vessel

Sketches from New York: entertainment in a lager beer saloon, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches from New York: entertainment in a lager beer saloon, 1864. 'Lager beer proper is composed of malt, hops, and water...It is lighter than the beer of England

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington: Silver-gilt tankard; the Lynn Cup; chrismatory, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Silver-gilt tankard of hexagonal form, narrow in the centre, widening towards the base, ornamented with masks and scrolls

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington: Chalice, cups, ewer, pyx, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'A silver-gilt chalice, the work of Master Bartholomew, of Atri...supposed to have...[belonged] to Pope Boniface VIII...around the stem is...[an]

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington: Cups, tankard, casket, salt, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Silver-gilt standing-cup; silver cup; silver-gilt beaker; crystal tankard, "The Poison-Cup"; casket; silver-gilt salt

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington: Flask, spoon, coffret, reliquary..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Small silver flask...ornamented in repousse, with strapwork and flowers...a crest of a griffin's head in the centre

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington: Mother-of-pearl cup; Cellini Ewer; vase, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Cup, in form of a partridge; the body formed of overlapping pieces of mother-of-pearl in imitation of feathers...Circa 1600. Baron L. de Rothschild

The Smithfield Club Show: prize cattle and cups, 1862. Creator: Harrison Weir
The Smithfield Club Show: prize cattle and cups, 1862. 'The cups, two of them of the value of £40 each for beasts, and three of £20 each for sheep

King Cheer - drawn by James Godwin, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
King Cheer - drawn by James Godwin, 1864. Illustration to a poem by George MacDonald. 'King Cheer he reigned in Aureoland

German artillerists on firing line, Verdun, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German artillerists on firing line, Verdun, between c1914 and c1915. German soldiers eating during World War I, Verdun, France.

Golden vessels in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Golden vessels in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911.

Finely crafted chalice in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911.

Silver vessels, in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Silver vessels, in the vestry of the Ipatievsky Monastery, Kostroma, 1911.

Sketches from New York: a Garten Wirthschaft, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Sketches from New York: a Garten Wirthschaft, 1864. 'There is hardly a street, lane, or alley in the city of New York in which the lager beer saloon, in some of its various forms

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's gospel and Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich's sacramental vessels..., 1911
Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich's gospel and Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich's sacramental vessels [Trinity Monastery, Aleksandrov], 1911.

Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918
Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Students at the New York Cooking School, 126 East 59th Street. The school trained soldiers to cook for the Navy during World War I.

Portrait of Signora Vincensa, c1820. Creator: Olaf Johan Sodermark
Portrait of Signora Vincensa, c1820

Still Life with Fruit and a Nautilus Goblet. Creator: Nicolaes van Gelder
Still Life with Fruit and a Nautilus Goblet, Unknown date

A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, Known as the Merry Drinker, c.1628-c.1630. Creator: Frans Hals
A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, Known as the Merry Drinker, c.1628-c.1630. A Berkemeyer is a drinking glass with a wide, flared bowl, dating from 15th-century Germany and the Netherlands

Fashion Plate (Morning Dress), 1814. Creator: Rudolph Ackermann
Fashion Plate (Morning Dress), 1814

Illustration for the Works of J.P.C. Florian, 1796. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for the Works of J.P.C. Florian, 1796

AI IMAGE - Badger, from "The Wind in the Willows", 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Badger, from "The Wind in the Willows", 2023

AI IMAGE - Badger, from "The Wind in the Willows", 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Badger, from "The Wind in the Willows", 2023

The Guildhall Banquet to the Prince and Princess of Wales: the Loving Cup, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Guildhall Banquet to the Prince and Princess of Wales: the Loving Cup, 1876. The future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra are entertained by the Lord Mayor of London

AI IMAGE - Alice, from "Alice in Wonderland", 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Alice, from "Alice in Wonderland", 2023

V'la l'coco: The Chocolate Vendor, 1855-1857. Creator: Paul Gavarni
V'la l'coco: The Chocolate Vendor, 1855-1857

"A Merry Christmas!", 1860. Creator: Godwin. "A Merry Christmas!", 1860. Creator: Godwin
"A Merry Christmas!", 1860. From "Illustrated London News", 1860

The Goodwood Race Plate, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Goodwood Race Plate, 1860. The Stewards Cup, by Messrs. London and Ryder, is of charming design and workmanship. The general form of the vase resembles the proportions of some antique models

Car Man and Coal Heaver, 1848. Creator: Paul Gavarni
Car Man and Coal Heaver, 1848. Depicts two men whose different occupations were indispensible to the mid-19th-century metropolis

The Barmaid, 1847-1851. Creator: Paul Gavarni
The Barmaid, 1847-1851; pausing on the threshold between the working-class "public bar" and the more genteel "parlour" section of the pub in which she works

AI IMAGE - Alice, from "Alice in Wonderland", 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Alice, from "Alice in Wonderland", 2023

Toby Weller, 1888. Creator: Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Toby Weller, 1888. A stagecoach driver relaxing and enjoying his pipe. Toby Weller was a character in Charles Dickens "The Pickwick Papers, " first published in 1836/1837

Life in the trenches in Champagne; Calm: "le pinard", 1917. Creator: Unknown
Life in the trenches in Champagne; Calm: "le pinard", 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Young Man with a Glass Goblet, c1600s. Creator: Willem Willemsz. van der Vliet
Young Man with a Glass Goblet, c1600s

Wild Briar Roses, 1908. Creator: Anna Munthe-Norstedt
Wild Briar Roses, 1908

Breakfast Piece, 1640-1649. Creator: Unknown
Breakfast Piece, 1640-1649. In the 1600s, ham, bread, and white wine were often eaten at breakfast as well as at lunch. The use of simple pewter indicates that this is an everyday meal

Saint Mary Magdalene, c1524. Creator: Bernardino Luini
Saint Mary Magdalene, c1524. According to Church (but not biblical) tradition, Mary Magdalene (probably indicating that she came from the the town Magdala) was a sinful woman

The Concert at Tre Byttor (The Three Barrels tavern in Stockholm's Djurgården Park)... 1860
The Concert at Tre Byttor (The Three Barrels tavern in Stockholm's Djurgarden Park). Scene from Fredman's Epistle 51, Movitz blaste en Concert ("Movitz blew a concert"), 1860

Illustration for Phil Engelhard's Poems, 1782. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for Phil Engelhard's Poems, 1782

Tavern Scene, 1692. Creator: Richard Brakenburgh
Tavern Scene, 1692

Skittles at Faggen's. Scene from Fredman's Epistle 55 by Bellman, 1868. Creator: Peter Eskilson
Skittles at Faggen's. Scene from Fredman's Epistle 55 by Bellman, 1868. "Fredmans epistlar" (English: Fredman's Epistles)

Tavern Scene with Pipe-smokers. Creator: Unknown
Tavern Scene with Pipe-smokers, Unknown date. Manner of David Teniers the Younger

Talking in the Twilight, late 19th-early 20th century. Creator: Lucien Simon
Talking in the Twilight, late 19th-early 20th century

Private Meal, early 18th century. Creator: Jan Baptist Lambrechts
Private Meal, early 18th century. Couple sitting at a table made with a board over a barrel

Private Meal, early 18th century. Creator: Jan Baptist Lambrechts
Private Meal, early 18th century

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