Chalice
Category
Silver
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silver
Measurements
500 x 210 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436560
Summary
An Italian chalice with an English cover. The chalice on a large shaped circular foot with baluster stem and slightly shaped bowl, the whole repousse and chased with scenes from the Old and New Testaments amidst elaborate scolling, foliage and flowers. The stem with applied silver foliage, the cover chased with medallions of Saints, flowers and scrolls and topped with a cross finial the corpus missing. Bolanzo, circa 1730, Makers mark 'AH' the cover added later, by Garrard dated 1822.