Egg cup

Egg cups are used to prevent boiled eggs on these, roles, if they are eaten directly from the shell. This day everyday part of the breakfast dishes had long been a luxury item and expression fine table manners.

History

Busy is the existence of egg cups since the Roman Empire. A mosaic from Antioch 40 BC shows a meal with standing in egg cups eggs and egg spoons. In Pompeii, a silver egg cup was found with associated spoon.

In the meantime, apparently forgotten, came egg cup in the 16th century the nobility back into fashion. In a drawing from this time an Italian egg cup with the inscription " by ova " is explained ( for egg). A similar picture is also from Germany. Soon they were disseminated at European courts as costly vessels of silver, gold and semi- precious stones. In these egg cups egg was vertically upwards, kept with the top. However, that was not true everywhere.

In a painting by Georg Flegel 17th century Zinnschälchen be seen with feet in which an egg is transverse, on a strip of bread, which apparently served in place of a spoon to Austunken of ice, which, therefore, be cooked very soft allowed.

1727 was Louis XV. complement its Gold Service to painstakingly crafted egg cups. Such valuable, crafted by goldsmiths egg cups were common as gifts of the year, with sponsorship and baptisms, similar spoon.

Since the invention of porcelain, which was initially very expensive and corresponding prestige possessed, egg cups were also made from this material. The Meissen and Frankenthal and maximum Sided their services since the mid-18th century at the time as " mouth toys " designated egg cups, Villeroy & Boch followed towards the end of the century, the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, only a hundred years later.

Since porcelain is produced industrially, egg cups are a natural part of such services and to be adapted in form and decoration to the corresponding rows. Some copies are made so that they can alternatively be used as a tealight holder.

Addition, however, an echo of the eggcup as elaborate table decorations in the form of individual, often imaginatively decorated models from every conceivable material has been preserved, making them collectible.