Jungfrauenbecher

jungfrauenbecher. (yung'-fghaw-en-beh'-cegh)

    A German festive drinking cup manufactured in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries depicting a young lady in a long bell-shaped skirt holding a pivoting basket over her head. When the basket figure is inverted, the woman’s skirt forms a first bowl and the pivoting basket forms a second, smaller one. Such cups were used at wedding feasts where the groom was expected to drink from the larger bowl, without spilling the contents of the smaller one, which he passed to the bride.