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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 4055222, member: 50&quot;]Maybe call it a cache pot though it&#039;s in the shape of a monteith which were used to place wine bottles or glasses held in place by the notched rim.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://uncorked.winterthur.org/consumption-equipage/monteiths/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://uncorked.winterthur.org/consumption-equipage/monteiths/" rel="nofollow">http://uncorked.winterthur.org/consumption-equipage/monteiths/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]328133[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Monteiths, filled with cool water or ice, were used for chilling wine bottles and cooling or rinsing wine glasses; the latter were inverted and hung from the notched rim.&nbsp; The earliest written mention of monteiths may be by Anthony á Wood, an Oxford diarist writing in 1683.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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