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  • A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • South Africa: a Zulu medicine man preparing to draw blood by cupping, first making an incision in the patient's shoulder. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1907.
  • Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to a man's back: they are surrounded by anxious family and friends. Etching by A. Fantuzzi, ca. 1542, after G. Romano.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.
  • John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
  • Black Greek drinking cups; left, shallow cup with horizontal handles; middle, tall cup with horizontal handles (kotyle); right, cup with vertical handles. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • Pewter eye cup.
  • Antimony Cup. XVIIth century
  • Cup of Rhinoceros Horn
  • Milking machine: teat-cup liners
  • Double egg-cup of pewter.
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; Corinthian cup
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; Corinthian cup
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; ?Geometric cup
  • Milking apparatus: strip cup with clots
  • Handled cup, China, 18th century
  • Volta's pile and 'crown of cups'.
  • Red Figure Pelike and Cup, Athletes.
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; Attic r/f cup
  • Wooden head cup, Kasai, Congo, Africa.
  • Wooden head cup, Kasai, Congo, Africa.
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; pendant semicircle cup
  • Graeco-Italian ceramic; Attic r/f cup