Venus Rosewater Dish

The Venus Rosewater Dish is the

The Championships, Wimbledon, and was first presented to the Champion in 1886.^[1]

A Rosewater dish is a ceremonial platter or basin used after eating to catch

rosewater poured from warm or cold ewers over the hands to wash them, which was a daily ceremony in England. Later, such dishes were used for display only. A salver (Latin salva, save from risk) was originally used by food tasters who tested food for poison. A rosewater dish was considered a salver by extension. These dishes were made of pewter

, silver, or gold.

The 50

Louvre.^[1]^[2]

It is tradition for the winner to be awarded the trophy and then walk a lap around the court to display the trophy to the crowd and photographers. The winner does not keep the trophy, which remains in the museum at the All-England club, but from 1949 to 2006 all Champions have received a miniature replica of the trophy (diameter 8 inches (20 cm)), and from 2007 all Champions have received a three-quarter replica of the trophy, bearing the names of all past Champions (diameter 14 inches (36 cm)).

Being a reproduction of a Paris museum antique, the theme of decoration is related to not tennis but

liberal arts: astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, music, rhetoric, dialectic and grammar, each with relevant attribute. The rim of the salver has an ovolo moulding.^[1] The remainder of the surface is decorated with gilt renaissance strapwork

and foliate motifs in relief against a rigid silver ground.

The first recipient of the trophy was Blanche Bingley in 1886, the name of Maud Watson, champion of 1884 and 1885 was later added.^[1] The names of the winners from 1884 to 1957 are inscribed on the inside of the dish with the names of 1958 to present on the outside.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Little 2006, p. 216.
^ "Plat dit de la Tempérance, d'un ensemble avec la chope OA 2087". Retrieved 30 October 2023.

Bibliography

Little, Alan (2006). Wimbledon Compendium, 2006.
ISBN 978-1-89903-925-8
.

[FOOTNOTELittle2006216-1] Little 2006, p. 216.

[2] "Plat dit de la Tempérance, d'un ensemble avec la chope OA 2087". Retrieved 30 October 2023.

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