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These links are primarily to silver beakers, and a few other metal beakers in related styles, both fancier (including enamel and gilding) and baser (pewter, etc.). Plain glass beakers are not yet discussed on this site, though you'll find a few enamelled glass beakers among the enamelled glassware links.
I’ve noticed a trend among the illustrations & paintings below: beakers like these seem to have been most commonly used with flagons.
(Where to find such a thing for your own use? Some medieval re-enactors have found silver julep cups which approximate the look of these medieval beakers. Some re-creations are available from Billy and Charlie, Steve Millingham, and Medieval Design. (Originals also appear from time to time at eBay and other online auction sites.)
- Beakers from the Erfurt Treasure, parcel-gilt silver, made in the first half of the 14th century
- Silver beaker from the Gaillon Treasure, made in Amiens in the first half of the 14th century; see also Coupes profanes et sacrées
- Set of five silver beakers made in Prague c. 1350 (with heraldry)
- Silver beaker from the Ariège Treasure, made before 1361
- Bronze hunt-beaker, c. 1400, Burgundy? (more views here
- The Monkey Cup, a beaker with “painted” enamel on silver, made in the Burgundian territories c. 1425-1450
- Detail from Annunciation and detail from The Death of Mary, c. 1430-1435
- Staffelstein, Mendel Housebook (Amb. 317.2, fol. 51r), 1431
- The Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070), 1432, fols. 145r, 215v, 223v, 267v, 273r, 289v, 304r, 314r, 347v, 387, and 379v
- Detail from The Death of Mary, c. 1445-1455
- Beaker and cover probably made in Basel in the second half of the 15th century; given to the Treasury of Basel Cathedral by a chaplain between 1477 and 1511, when it was transformed into a reliquary
- Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, 1456
- Detail from The Birth of Mary, c. 1460-1465
- Detail from Annunciation, c. 1460-1470
- Geilana pays the murderers of Killian, c. 1465-1475
- Detail from The Last Supper, 1469
- Detail from The Last Supper, c. 1469-1480
- Enamelled silver gilt beaker and cover made in Germany c. 1470
- Parcel-gilt and enamelled beaker and cover made in Nuremberg c. 1470
- Detail from St. Oswald gives alms (from an Austrian altarpiece with the life of St. Oswald), c. 1470-1475
- Silver beakers made in France between 1480 and 1500 –
one with a triangle pattern and a belt with an inscription,
and one with two inscriptions and heraldry
- Virgin and child with an Angel, c. 1480-1500
- Detail from The Last Supper by Simon von Taisten, c. 1485-1490
- Detail from The Birth of Mary by Rueland Frueauf the Younger, 1488
- Works of Mercy: Giving drinks to the thirsty, c. 1490-1500
- Detail from St. Elizabeth of Thuringia bathing the lepers and detail from The Rose-Miracle of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia, c. 1495-1505
- Parcel-gilt silver beaker, made in France in the late 15th/early 16th century
- The Cassel Beaker, a silver-gilt beaker with initials pricked onto the side, c. 1496-1497
- Detail from the Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch, 1505-1506
- January, The Da Costa Hours (PML M.399, fol. 2v), c. 1515
- Detail from Revival After Stillbirth in the altarpiece from Steiermark, c. 1518-1522
- Pangratz Storchel (1530) and Cuntz Rott (1543) in the Landauer Housebook
- Parcel-gilt silver monatsbecher (one of a series of beakers with inscribed with references to the months of the year) by Courakt Grenter, c. 1550, made in Strasbourg, France
- Parcel-gilt silver beaker made in Lithuania in 1560; engravings feature serpents coiled around the cup, and the inscription “This cup was made for master Gregory of Orsha … for friendship to those who drink from it for the good of their souls”
- Silver beaker by William Cobbold, c. 1570-1595
- Wolff Prussel, Mendel Housebook (Amb. 317b.2, fol. 30r), 1572
- Silver and parcel-gilt beaker with an engraved scene and inscription (“Early in the morning drink as much as you can as long as the barrel is full”), made in Strasbourg c. 1575-1585
- Parcel-gilt silver beaker with raised, engraved, and stamped decoration, made in Norwich by William Cobbold c. 1580-1585
- Engraved silver beaker by Gabriel Brockmuller, made in Hillerød, Denmark, 1589
- Silver beaker with engraved decoration and prunt-like decorations, made in Antwerp c. 1598-1599
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