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To toast to the new year, the curator's pick for January is this elaborate silver monteith with chased and cast ornament. Monteiths were used to wash or cool wine glasses. The bases of the glasses would hang in the notches along the rim, allowing the bowls of the glasses to hang in the cool water. The monteith is on view on the 3rd floor of the Main Building in our display "What Am I?" Come test your knowledge on the iPad quiz and learn more about some of the rare and interesting artifacts in the collection.Label Type
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Monteiths were used to cool glasses or rinse them between drinks. Wine glasses were inverted into the bowl with the base of the glass supported by the notches around the rim.Label Type
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Wine glass coolers like this were called monteiths, supposedly after a Scottish lord named Monteith who wore capes with scalloped edges.Label Type
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Montieths were used to cool glasses or rinse them between drinks. Wine glasses were inverted into the bowl with the base of the glass supported by the notches around the rim.Label Type
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The five marks found on English silver were the maker’s mark, the city mark (for London a crowned leopard’s head), the standard or sterling mark (a passant gardant lion), the date letter, and the duty mark (sovereign’s head).