London, 1680. Maker, E. G. QUEEN ANNE LAVABO BOWL. Exeter, 1702. Maker John Elston. (_In possession of Parish of St. Martin’s, Exeter._)] [Illustration: QUEEN ANNE PATEN. Exeter hall-mark, 1714. Maker, Pentecost Symonds. (Marks illustrated p. 391.) (_By courtesy of Messrs. Ellett Lake & Son, Exeter._)] [Illustration: SMALL COMMUNION CUP AND COVER. GEORGE II. Exeter hall-mark, 1729. Maker, James Strong. (Marks are illustrated above.) (_In possession of Parish of St. Martin’s, Exeter._)] III THE MAZER THE STANDING CUP THE FLAGON THE TANKARD THE BEAKER THE WINE CUP THE PUNCH-BOWL CHAPTER III THE MAZER, THE STANDING CUP, THE FLAGON, THE TANKARD, THE BEAKER, THE WINE CUP, THE PUNCH-BOWL The Mazer, the fifteenth-century precursor of the punch-bowl--Some historic Standing Cups (the Leigh Cup, 1499)--Stoneware jugs with silver mounts and covers--The seventeenth century--The Pepys Standing Cup--Elizabethan flagons--Seventeenth-century Tankards--The Stuart Beaker--Stuart wine cups--The “Monteith” form punch-bowl of the eighteenth century. In this chapter it will be seen that a survey is made of the drinking vessels of silver plate in use during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the advent of coffee and tea, silver plate found a newer field, and the coffee-pots, tea-pots, and tea-caddies of the eighteenth century are dealt with in another chapter. During the period prior to the general use of glass, metals were employed for domestic plate. Pewter, being less costly, was more used than silver plate, which was confined to the wealthier classes; and for those of lower degree the black-jack and the “old leather bottel” sufficed. Faience from the Low Countries and from Cologne early found its way to this country. The Bellarmine jugs, large in capacity and strongly made of _gres de Flandres_ stoneware, were possibly much in demand for serving sack and beer and other liquors consumed in large quantities. It is the tendency of all simple objects to become ornate. The earliest plain horn cups used by the herdsman and the simples developed into silver-mounted richly-chased drinking horns for use at the castle. Of this class is the drinking horn belonging to Lord Cawdor, at Golden Grove, with silver mounts supported by silver dragon and greyhound, which has a history dating from the days of Richard III.