Kiddush ("sanctification") is a short ceremony involving the recitation of a prayer over a cup of wine during the evening beginning the Sabbath and other holidays. It is said by the master of the house in the presence of the entire family, immediately after returning from the synagogue, before the evening meal, and repeated the following morning. The prayer consists of two blessings: one over wine, the other over the Sabbath or other holidays. Specially designed chalices or cups are used to perform kiddush.
The brass cup from the collection of the Lublin Open Air Village Museum has an engraved decoration in the form of simple architectural motifs in two opposite sections - on one side, there is a tower resembling a truncated cone with a flag, on the other one - there is a building with a gable roof. Geometric elements with trefoils are placed between the sections with images of buildings. It cannot be ruled out that the cup was used as a Kiddush cup. Kiddush cups had various forms and were made from different materials - depending on the wealth of their owners. They often did not differ in appearance from cups used in non-Jewish homes. In Eastern Europe, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the most common Kiddush cups were metal ones (especially silver), on which geometric and floral ornaments were placed along with engraved images or representations of Jerusalem and other Jewish places in the Holy Land.
The item was purchased for the collection of the Lublin Open Air Village Museum in 2009 from "Antyki" gallery (1909–1972) at Narutowicza Street in Lublin.