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Monteith.
Type of large footed bowl with two drop-ring handles and a notched or scalloped rim. Made in silver, pewter, glass or ceramic, it was used for cooling wine-glasses, which were suspended by their feet in the water it contained. It could be converted into a punch-bowl by the provision of a detachable rim and was often made with a matching ladle and set of beakers. The monteith was popular in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and the USA between c. 1677 and c. 1720 (e.g. silver monteith by John Coney, c. 1700–10; New Haven, CT, Yale U. A.G.; see UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, fig. 48). Its fluted or panelled body is usually chased or embossed and the rim enriched with scrollwork, foliage and cherubs’ heads. It was recorded in 1683 that it was named after a Scotsman called Monteigh, who wore a cloak with scalloped hem. A similar vessel in France was known as a rafraîchissoir or a verrière.
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