Editing Caudle (section)

==Caudle cups==
[[File:Two-Handled Covered Cup and Saucer LACMA 54.140.18a-c.jpg|thumb|Caudle cup in [[Worcester porcelain]], 1805]]
[[File:Caudle Cup, London, c.&nbsp;1660-1670 - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - DSC08668.JPG|thumb|An earthenware caudle cup depicting [[King Charles II of England]], 1660s, [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]]]]There was a vessel particular to the drink, the caudle cup, a traditional gift, either [[baby shower|for a pregnant woman]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baring-Gould |first1=Sabine |title=Devonshire Characters and Strange Events |chapter=Joanna Southcott |date=1908 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Devonshire_Characters_and_Strange_Events/Joanna_Southcott |accessdate=30 December 2018}}</ref> or on visits by female friends to the mother lying-in.<ref>Hughes, 144</ref>  Late 17th and early 18th-century examples in silver are low bulbous bowls with two handles, and often a cover. These were passed around among the company.<ref>[https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83917/caudle-cup "Caudle Cup", c. 1683], [[Art Institute of Chicago]]; {{cite book |last1=Holmes |first1=Oliver Wendell |title=Elsie Venner |date=1859 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elsie_Venner/Chapter_XIV |accessdate=30 December 2018}}</ref>

Poorer people used small bulbous and handleless earthenware cups, often painted with the monarch.  In the early 18th century lidded "spout pots" were used; these were two-handled with a teapot-style spout on one of the other sides.<ref>Hughes, 187, 144</ref> As European [[porcelain]] developed in the 18th century, the two-handled cup with a cover, similar to the shape called a "chocolate cup" in continental examples, but often more bulbous, became the usual form of caudle cup, now with a saucer.  These were typically highly decorated with [[overglaze enamel]] painting, and presented by the wealthy in pairs to new mothers.  They were now smaller, and probably for individual use.  Other than their use when lying-in, they functioned as [[cabinet cup]]s, too ornate and expensive for regular use, and displayed in a [[china cabinet]]. In a London auction of [[Chelsea porcelain]] and [[Derby porcelain]] in 1771 the most expensive examples were sold for £12 for a pair, a considerable sum. They continued to be made through the 19th century as cabinet pieces, after the custom of consuming caudle largely died away.<ref>Hughes, 144-146</ref>

At lower levels of society, an alternative pottery gift to bring to a lying-in caudle party was a model [[Cradle (bed)|cradle]] complete with baby, into which coins or a small gift were added. These were rarely of fine porcelain.<ref>Hughes, 156-158</ref>