Dynasty Cup

Sit one on a table, a work bench or any other flat piece of furniture and the game treats it as a placed bottle. That covers the basic potion recipes, so a cup can quietly take over from the Bottle on your alchemy bench and look better doing it. Only one has to be in range, and a second cup on the same table adds nothing.

Every cup does the same job, so the choice is decoration. The Dynasty Cup matches the rest of the dynasty furniture line and suits an eastern themed room. The Teacup and Honey Cup fit smaller wooden or hive builds, and the Chalice has to be waited for, since the Traveling Merchant only carries it on some visits.

Once you can haul an Alchemy Table home from the dungeon, that replaces the bottle function and gives back ingredients now and then on top of it. From that point the cup is furniture again, which is fine, because that was always the reason to pick this one over a plain bottle.