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Description: | Cast cu-alloy miniature cauldron, cast in a triplicate form dating from the late medieval or early post-medieval period, i.e. c. AD1550-1700. These multiples are quite rare and toy cauldrons with three legs are more often found as a single component. This find has been cast so that three cauldrons are positioned together each with a single handle lug on the outside. Each individual cauldron also had one single leg one the outside, but only two of these legs survive (see image). The reason for creating a triplicate example is unclear; vessels known as ??fuddling?? vessels have been recorded as full size ceramics and were produced from the 17th century in the ??country pottery?? tradition as novelty or joke pieces ?? created to befuddle. These ??fuddling cups?? were vessels with three or more small cups with interlinked handles and joined together through a small hole in the walls. The idea was to drink from one without spilling the contents of the others. Although cooking vessels (which these miniature cauldrons were copies of) have no ??fuddling?? parallel, it seems that this miniature is some sort of novelty piece. A very similar 'fuddling cup' was recorded under SWYOR-6C64B4. The general idea was to challenge someone to drink without spilling any liquid (impossible if all the chambers were filled - but that was the point of this 17th century joke). None of these vessels (of either size) have been reported from the City of London yet which suggests that these 'fuddling cups' (original as well as miniature) seem to have been a rural joke. ( pers. comm. Geoff Egan) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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