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STERLING SILVER JULEP CUPS W/ HORSE IN RELIEF $250 EACH browse these categories for related items... All Items: Traditional Collectibles: Contemporary: item # 332091 Please refer to our stock # HorseJulep when inquiring.
Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver 5133 Harding Road B-10, PMB #392 Nashville TN 37205 (615) 477-6221 Guest Book $250 |
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| These sterling silver mint julep cups has the added attraction of a horse's head and neck in relief on each one. The classic cups measure 3-1/2 inches in height and 2-7/8 inches in diameter at the top. They are banded at the rim and at the base. They weigh approximately 3.90 troy ounces each. This cup may be also purchased individually for $250 each. Though the term “mint julep cup” sounds a lot more romantic, the real literal word for that form of plain flat-bottomed drinking vessel without a handle is a “beaker,” sometimes called a tumbler. An early seventeenth- and eighteenth-century form, early New England beakers tended to be low and wide, and early New York examples were tall in the Dutch style. By the early nineteenth century, this cylindrical form had a banded rim at the top and bottom, usually with straight or slightly flared sides. The name “julep cup” is reserved for beakers that were made or sold in the South or in the Border States as a popular drinking vessel for the middle and well-to-do classes and came to be associated with the Southern liquor drink. The phrase “julep cup” didn’t come into use possibly until the 1830s-1840s. The mint julep drink was originally a strong concoction of rum, sugar and water. | |||||||
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