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Lot 401 Dα

A museum quality Elisabethan silver communion chalice

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 9.072 € (incl. premium)
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A museum quality Elisabethan silver communion chalice

Round, domed base supporting a shaft with a disc shaped pommel and tall tapering cup with smooth, slightly flared rim and foliate engravings. In a fitted leather case with a dedication inscription dated 1915. H 18 cm, weight 218 g.
London, unidentified imperial orb mark (documented as of 1570), 1577.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. an almost identical communion chalice in the Gilbert Collection, now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Timothy Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, Los Angeles 1988, no. 7. Cf. also a chalice in the Schroder Collection, illustrated in Cat. The Art of the European Goldsmith, New York 1983, no. 15.