Wine Cup

Joseph Foster

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Silver wine cup with a lid, on a stem with a base. The body of the cup is shaped like a chalix, wider at the top and narrowing at the bottom where it connects to the stem. Three horizontal lines around the top of the body, just below the lid. The lid is domed with a small finial on top. Oval engraving on the body reads "PROPERTY OF REEDLES STREET CHURCH BOSTON". The background is gray. The artist or maker is Joseph Foster.