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Loving Cups and Grace Cups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Claude Blair
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The paper discusses the ceremony of the Loving Cup that follows the dinners of many City of London livery companies. It concludes that, far from being of Saxon origin, as has been widely believed, it was a Romantic revival of the late eighteenth century derived, almost certainly, from the medieval use of grace cups.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 84 , September 2004 , pp. 393 - 399
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2004

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