double cup

American  

noun

1. (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.

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Example Sentences

A double cup or ladle shown in Fig.

From Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 by Stevenson, James

When he reached the place where the treasures of his house were kept, he selected a double cup, and told his son Megapenthes to bring also a silver mixing bowl.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

He himself took therefrom a double cup, and bade his son bear a mixing-bowl of silver; as for Helen, she took from her chests a robe that she had wrought with her own hands.

From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer

By and by Margaret came back, carrying the pouch opened like a double cup.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold

They set him down in a swoon and then went to fetch the double cup.

From The Iliad by Homer