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Mazer (drinking vessel)
In the Germanic tradition, a mazer is a special type of drinking vessel, properly made of maple wood, and so-called from the spotted or birdseye marking on the wood (Ger. ''Maser'', spot, marking, especially on wood; ''cf.'' measles).
==Description==
These drinking vessels are shallow bowls without handles, with a broad flat foot and a knob or boss in the centre of the inside, known technically as the print. They vary from simple, wooden affairs, to those ornamented with metalwork.
They were made from the 11th to the 16th centuries, and were the most prized of the various wooden cups in use, and so were ornamented with a rim of precious metal, generally of silver or silver gilt; the foot and the print being also of metal. There are examples with wooden covers with a metal handle, such as the Flemish and German mazers in the Franks Bequest in the British Museum. On the metal rim is usually an inscription, religious or bacchanalian, and the print was also often decorated. The later mazers sometimes had metal straps between the rim and the foot.
A few were turned very finely, normally from burr maple (Acer campestre). Both the wood and the vessels made of it were known as "mazer" so in contemporary accounts sometimes they are referred to as ciphis de mazer (drinking bowl of burr maple wood) and sometimes simply as a "mazer". The best mazers had silver or silver gilt rims added, commonly prints were also added (a decorated disc in the base of the bowl) and occasionally normally on later mazers a silver or gilt foot was also added.
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