2570 – Cup and saucer

Physical description:: A fortune-telling tea cup and saucer with instruction booklet. The cup has planetary symbols and symbolic pictures inside. The saucer has the signs of the zodiac around it. In box.
Museum classification:: Divination
Size:: Cup 55 x 100 x 80; saucer 20 x 150 diam.
Information:: Made for the Salem Witch Museum. In original box.
The cup has the words, "Would'st thy fortune like to see? Perchance this cup will show it thee" written around the outside.
The design is based on earlier fortune-telling cups - the Taltos Cup and Aynsley's Nelros Cup of Fortune.
Resource:: Object
Materials:: Ceramic and paper