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Thistle cups

Scope note

Small cups indigenous to Scotland, with a bell-shaped bowl, the lower part of which is decorated with a calyx-type band of applied lobes giving them the appearance of a thistle; also includes a type of standing cup of which the bowl is in the form of a thistle, made in the 16th century. ILDCS

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000195553

Broader Terms used

<cups by form>

Term used for

cups, thistle

Equivalent Terms used

thistle cup

Created

13yrs ago

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