Cup

A Cup (from the Italian boccale " bulbous drinking vessel ", dating back to ancient Greek bá ͞ ukalis ( βαύκαλις ) " wine or water -cooling vessel " ) is a drinking vessel, the shell ( cuppa ) is separated from the foot by its own stem. Glass cups are called such if they stand out from the stalked wine glass by size or precious processing. Although the Tazza also has high foot and shaft, but unlike the cup a very flat cuppa. From the chalice and ciborium, it differs by its profane use, from the cup by the high shaft. In the elderly, especially poetic usage mug and cup, however, are almost synonyms.

Materials

Cups were made primarily of metal, primarily of silver. Especially precious pieces were enriched in the 16th century with gems, pearls and enamel work. Today, other white shiny alloys, silver-plated, anodized and galvanized materials.

Cups of tin have been handed down primarily as " Will Come ". Larger wine glasses and representative showpieces made ​​of ground and cut glass are also referred to as a trophy. These include the health glasses. Wooden cups in a turned style were in the 16th and 17th centuries certainly more common than suggested by the few surviving examples suggest. Also, there are cups made ​​of ivory, alabaster, serpentine, and exotic natural materials such as ostrich eggs, coconut and other nut shells, mussel and snail shells, which were all but more Kunstkammer pieces as they were actually used for drinking. Ceramic materials are not appropriate due to the fragility of the shaft for this vessel type, so one finds in the history of arts and crafts hardly appropriate examples.

Silver cups

Their shape history and the importance they have in worldly practices to the present day, are without the history of the sacred chalice unthinkable in the Middle Ages. Profane cups of the Middle Ages are rare. Among the few exceptions include some English examples. The Emperor's Cup at City Hall Osnabrück, however, was probably originally a sacred ciborium. In 1500, with the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance produced in Germany, the first great silver cups for princely Kunstkammer and Civil Council silver treasures. First, its shape is still determined by the Buckelung that is very much in the goldsmith's art of driving. You are of a cuppa fragmented structured, yet late Gothic -looking shape. In various versions, some of which are referred to as columbine, pineapple or grape Cup, the Cup hump until the 17th century holds. But already in the first half of the 16th century, next developed a horizontally structured by ridges and constrictions Cup type. With the double cup, two cups shape similar to the lip edges are aufeinandersetzbar, so that the top serves as a lid for the bottom. You write him a role in the wedding customs. Smaller simpler, but never entirely without ornament serene trophies have in the decades around 1600, probably a lean, cup-shaped ausschwingende cuppa. Silver trophies have often figured in the 16th and 17th centuries shafts, if not the baluster - or vase-shaped standard form is chosen. If, following a tendency to naturalism, the cuppa is sometimes formed in the shape of an apple, a pear or melon, the shaft is formed like astförmig. The making of a trophy was in many goldsmith guilds on the requirements for the feat, so a Akeleipokal was in Nuremberg since 1531 ( then according to this model in other cities ) prescribed. Cups were all provided with covers, even if they lost more often than those which the vessels themselves

Since the function of the Cup as a representation gift and showpiece always went over to his mere drinking vessel, he is consistently decorated with gilding and elaborate ornament. Since the later 17th century hardly added new trophies in the princely and urban silver treasures, earthenware, porcelain and cut glass appear on the table festively decorated with the silver trim panel in competition. Silver Will Come be made in cup form only for retrospective world of the guilds in the 18th century yet. Only in the 19th century is remembered again how the Schinkel's designs show the " dignity form" of the Cup, and completely historicism drives in crafts with him his cult wherever a victory or anniversary to celebrate. Mechanization in the silverware industry makes the silver, and especially the silver-plated trophy for series products.

Exhibitions in Germany

Since there is hardly a cultural history, urban history, or the arts and crafts are dedicated museum, which has not issued some trophies should be noted on a few special collections: Unusually rich examples of silver goblets accommodate the Green Vault in Dresden, the Treasury of the Munich Residence and the Decorative Arts Museum Berlin.

  • "Homage trophies " in the Residence Museum Celle

Hamburger table fountains and four-time Cup Grapes (left to right )

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