- 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, 1240s
There are several formal meals presented, including fols.
6v (Joseph holds a feast to welcome Benjamin);
16r (the Levite and his wife), and 37v (David feasts with Michal and Abner). Dishes are generally gold-colored (either gilt or bronze), and knives tend to have notched tips.
- Tankard, 13th century Persia
- Goblet, ceramic with champleve decoration, Constantinople, 13th-14th century
- Death of King Harthacnut at a wedding feast (fol. 7r) and death of Earl Godwin at a royal banquet (fol. 25r), The Life of King Edward the Confessor (Ee. 3.59), c. 1250-60
- 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.
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