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Chalice

Chalice

Unidentified Artist

European

A gilt chalice, the foot engraved with leaf patterns and an encircled cross; the hexagonal-section stem decorated with engraved archways and brickwork design, separated in the centre by an elaborately pierced knop; the calyx in the form of cast trilobate stylized leaves.

Gilded silver

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