This article relates the biography of a seventeenth-century gilt-silver cup from its origins in Nuremberg in the 1630s to its use in civic drinking rituals in the small town of Bernkastel-Kues on the Moselle River during the twentieth century. It investigates in particular two of the cup’s physical features, its 1661 inscription and the lobate forms populating its surface, which facilitate different modes of social relation and offer distinct orientations to permanence and the historical past. Recounting the cup’s history over centuries occasions discussion of the shifting significance of ceremonial drinking (Ehrentrunk) and council plate or civic plate (Ratssilber) in German cities and towns.

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铭文、浮雕表面和仪式性啜饮：Bernkastel-Kues 的 Traubenpokal，1661-2001 年

本文讲述了 17 世纪镀金银杯的传记，从 1630 年代纽伦堡的起源到 20 世纪摩泽尔河畔贝尔恩卡斯特尔-库斯小镇在公民饮酒仪式中的使用。它特别研究了杯子的两个物理特征，即 1661 年的铭文和其表面的叶状形状，它们促进了不同的社会关系模式，并为永恒和历史提供了不同的方向。回顾这个杯子几个世纪以来的历史，人们讨论了德国城镇中礼仪饮酒 (Ehrentrunk) 和议会酒杯或公民酒杯 (Ratssilber) 的意义的转变。