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Description: | Quaich, drinking-cup, in wood with twelve staves. Silver frill encircles brim and upper part of the two handles. One handle marked A Y, the other F K Inside a silver circular badge is marked M F K and A Y Two wooden bands circle lower part of body and rim of base
"Silver mounted wooden quaich, Aberdeenshire (mid 18th cent)."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Wide, shallow, two-handled, or lugged, drinking bowls are known as 'quaichs', from the Gaelic word 'cuach'. They came into use in the early 17th century. Quaichs come in many sizes and are made both from wood and silver. The cup would have been passed round from hand to hand in company, like a loving cup. This good-sized quaich is a staved vessel. The outer profile is a tapered cylider, the inner a shallow bowl. Therefore the staves become thinner towards the rim and their upper parts are feathered, which prevents shrinkage,and leaking. The quaich has a scalloped silver-bound rim and the lugs are covered with silver, inscribed 'AY'on one lug and 'FK' on the other. In the base of the bowl is a round, scalloped silver plaque inscribed 'MFK/AY'. The quaich dates from the first half of the 18th century. It possibly commemorates a marriage."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Yates, Mr John | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1700-1750 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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