A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
A circular or oval bowl with a scalloped rim, which allows several wine-glasses to be suspended by the foot, with the bowls immersed in iced water to cool them before use (see Wine-glass cooler)
A large unusually-shaped bowl with a pronounced scalloped rim designed to receive the stems of wine glasses, holding the glasses with the feet outside and the glasses within, keeping them cool in iced water.
A bowl used to cool drinking glasses in iced water. Its rim had notches into which stemmed glasses were slotted. Named after the seventeenth century Earl of Monteith, a court fop noted for the elaborately scalloped hems on his cloaks which the rim of the monteith resembled, the first British examples date to around 1680, while the first American one was made about 1700 by the Boston silversmith John Coney. Later monteiths were also made of porcelain and glass, sometimes with a removeable silver rim, in which case the bowl doubled as a punch bowl.
A cooler for wine glasses resembling a punchbowl, but with a notched, often detachable rims to suspend the glasses over iced water.
A monteith is a bowl used for the cooling of wine glasses. The rim has depressions in it that allow the leg of the wineglass to be caught by its base so that the bowl of the wine-glass dips into ice-water, the base staying dry. These bowls were often made out of precious metals, and being novelty pieces their rarity has afforded many of them great value as collectibles.