Monteith
Thomas Bolton
1703
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
26.7 × 36.7 × 35.9 cm (10 1/2 × 14 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
vessel for serving food
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74600
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
A form presumably developed in Scotland, the monteith, with its notched or scalloped rim, was used to rinse or cool upended wineglasses. This example, which has a removable rim, could also have served as a punch bowl. This monteith bears the arms of Sir Richard Cox (1650-1733) of Castletown Cox, Co. Kilkenny on one side and those of James Butler the 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665-1745) on the other. Upon becoming Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1703, Sir Richard Cox received the Great Seal of the prev...