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What-is-it question LXXI.
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:17 pm
by 2209patrick
These British cups were made around 1691.
The stand 4 inches (10cm.) high.
By what two names are they known?
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What-is-it question LXXI
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:33 pm
by kerangoumar
ox-eye or college cups
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:03 pm
by 2209patrick
Yes and yes.
Ox-eye refers to the shape of the handles.
College Cup is used because most surviving examples belong to colleges.
Well done kerangoumar.
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What-is-it question LXXI.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:50 pm
by kerangoumar
when I saw the picture, I was truly moooooved by their beauty
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