Eating Utensils and "Feast Gear" of the High Middle Ages

• Anglo-Saxon and Viking Glass, Woodwork, and Pottery with pictures of 10th-11th century examples
• The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century
  "Hic fecerunt prandium": At a feast, there are bowls and drinking vessels of various shapes. (Note the servant dropping to one knee to present the food, as well as the trumpeter calling the guests to table; these will be seen repeatedly in these illustrations.)
• The Nihavand find (western Iran, 11th-12th century) includes a small gold wine-bowl.
• Tankard with astrological decorations, late 12th century Iran
• Relief-cut glass tumbler made in Syria or Egypt in the 12th or 13th centuries; One of several glasses purported to have belonged to the Silesian Princess Saint Hedwig (1174-1245)
• Early medieval Oxfordware dish, late 12th-early 13th century
• Bowl with geometric decoration, ceramic with slip decoration, Salonika, 1180-1220
• Bowl with sgraffito decoration, Myrina, 1180-1220
• Bowl with geometrical sgraffito decoration, 1180-1220
• Bowl with sgraffito decoration depicting a warrior, 1180-1220
• The Maciejowski Bible, 13th century
  There are several formal meals presented, including 6v (Joseph holds a feast to welcome Benjamin); the Levite and his wife (see also this detail). Dishes are generally gold-colored (either gilt or bronze), and knives tend to have oddly-shaped tips.
• Tankard, 13th century Persia
• Goblet, ceramic with champleve decoration, Constantinople, 13th-14th century
• Surrey whitewares, 1240-1500
• The Count of Méliacin, 1270
  Several dishes are simply outlined against the white tablecloth, including flagons, shallow goblets, eating knives, and footed bowls.