Chalice
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A chalice or goblet is a footed cup intended to hold a drink. In religious practice, a chalice is often used for drinking during a ceremony or may carry a certain symbolic meaning.
Chalice in the vestry of the Ipatevskii Monastery in Kostroma. Photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in 1911
Fresco of a female figure holding a chalice at an early Christian Agape feast. Catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Via Labicana, Rome
Chalice with Saints and Scenes from the Life of Christ
Silver chalice in the museum of the Romanian Orthodox Archbishopy of the Vad, Feleac, and Cluj
Sacramental wine
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Sacramental wine, Communion wine, altar wine, or wine for consecration is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist. It is usually consumed after sacramental bread.
A chaplain pouring sacramental wine from a cruet into a chalice
A bridegroom receiving the chalice at the altar rail during a Nuptial Mass
The serving of Communion elements individually, to be taken in unison, is common among Baptists.