Thank you Mark!
Actually we are not digressing from the outstanding cuphilt Fernando has posted in the OP, but discussing various avenues toward classification and identifying it. Often a great deal of related material and comparisons, regardless of even tenuous observations, clues can be found in most unusual places!
Interesting about the contrived examples I mentioned with the odd crossguard UNDER the cup being cataloged as 'pirate'
I have one of these which was found with this seemingly cliche' classification as well (need to find pics of it).