Monster Mug

In a recent discussion about favorite cookie recipes I shared that my favorite holiday cookies were nut horns. 4 Like other ceremonial objects it was no doubt differentiated from the drinking cups in ordinary use by a gradual transition, Church vessels. If you love drinking, you must have surely come across drinking horns. Ancient Greeks had a number of specialized drinking vessels.

Compare with a related rhinoceros horn libation cup with similar composition and motif of chilong and taotie masks, 17th century, illustrated by , Connoisseurship of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, Hong Kong, 1999, p.60, no.13. Further related rhinoceros horn cups with similar archaistic motifs are illustrated by J.Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, p.152, no.184; and in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition catalogue Ming and Qing Chinese Arts from the C. P. Lin Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, no.167.

Tony Reali and the national panel recap the Jazz's win and debate the "greatness" of Mitchell's dunk, then preview Cavs-Raptors and debate what Toronto needs to win. Obviously, the idea of drinking from skull cups is did not come from just the lore of marauding Viking hordes.

The items found in the ship burial hearken the times of Beowulf, the Ango Saxon hero who celebrated his victories by imbibing from his drinking horn while sitting in his vast mead hall. In later times, horns of glass and precious metals were used in place of the actual cow horn.

3 To be distinguished from the drinking-horn proper is the rhyton (plural rhyta), a drinking-vessel made in the shape of a horn with an outlet at the pointed end. It may be mentioned here that it was a common practice in the 16th century and later in England for laymen to make gifts to the church of vessels of an entirely domestic character for use drinking horn in the service.