Obj. ID: 35782  Passover cup is for the fourth cup of wine, Egypt, circa 1950

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

The sanctification of the Shabbat and Holidays is connected with a blessing recited over wine or grape juice. While the wine can be drunk from any vessel, often special cups are created for the purpose. In most cases, regular cups are simply decorated or inscribed with names or blessings, rendering them exclusively for the Kiddush.

In the course of the regular Passover meal, wine is blessed on four occasions. This ceremony is performed with one cup or glass. This cup is specifically engraved for use at a Seder Pesach according to the Kabbalah. It is a vessel for that wine blessing ceremony as well but is one of four separate cups for each of the blessings. On it is inscribed words from the kabbalistic version of the Pesach Haggadah. This cup is for the fourth cup of wine and the appropriate blessing is inscribed on the cup. Such specifically kabbalistic ritual objects for Pesach are exceedingly rare.

This cup is specifically engraved for use at a Seder Pesach according to the Kabbalah. For such a ceremony, there are four separate cups and each of the four cups carries a special blessing. To find cups engraved with such blessings in highly unusual. This Egyptian cup would have been for such a ceremony in the tradition of the Mizrachim.

Inscription: Kos Revi'i Atra' Degvurah Nichnasim