holy dish

“It is all written down arithmetically in the stones at Stonehenge, and I have some sort of holy dish in my castle at Carbonek, together with a dove which flies about in various directions holding a censer of gold in its beak. Still, it was extremely kind of you to fetch my daughter out of the kettle.”

“That is in the stones also. Show you the holy dish some day, and all that Teach you arithmetic. Nice weather. Don’t have daughters unboiled every day. I think dinner will be ready.”

Grail, the holy dish at the Last Supper, would be much less familiar but for Tennyson.

Then the bishop took up the shining vessel from the table, and came to Galahad; and the knight kneeled down and took of the food that was within the holy dish.

This is," said He, "the holy dish wherein I ate the lamb at the Last Supper.