grace cup

Will ye not pledge me in a grace cup?"

He took the grace cup in his two hands and drank directly from it, disdaining to use the golden straw.

There was the grace cup, the parting cup that was filled with quince wine.

Nearby Balliol College also makes reference to the use of a Grace Cup which was discontinued in the early 20th century.

Oxford's Oriel College possess Sanford and Heywood grace cups, dated 1654-55 and 1669-70 in its Buttery Plate collection.

According to Brewer's Phrase and Fable, the Grace Cup is still seen at the Lord Mayor's feasts, at college, and occasionally in private banquets.

A Grace Cup (or Loving Cup) is a silver bowl or tankard with two handles that was traditionally passed round the table after grace at all banquets in London.

He also ran third in the Havre De Grace Cup Handicap at Havre de Grace Racetrack in Havre de Grace, Maryland at one and one eighth miles on dirt.

Robert Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) described their use as 'a corollary to conclude the feast and continue their mirth, a grace cup came in to cheer their hearts and they drank healths to one another again and again'.

The larger pieces of Buttery Plate include the Sanford and Heywood grace cups, dated 1654-55 and 1669-70, a rosewater ewer gifted in 1669, a punchbowl dating from 1735-36, and the great Wenman tankard presented in 1679, which holds a gallon and is the largest in Oxford.