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Maker: Unknown (Possibly)
Copper, enamelled and gilt
Copper, raised, enamelled in dark blue, dark green, dark red, and white enamels, and gilded with gold leaf; brass finial. The ciborium stands on a stepped and domed circular foot rising into a lobed stem supporting a separately made depressed globular knop with lobes above and below the equator, above which is a rounded calyx with everted petals on which the bowl rests. The deep rounded bowl is lobed round its lower part and has a gilt-copper rim. The domed cover has swirling gadroons on the top, and in the centre a finial in the form of a cross. The ground of both parts is blue with a dark green border round the foot, and dark green petals on the calyx. The blue areas are decorated in gold with palmettes, flower heads and fleurs-de-lys.The lobes on the foot, knop, and cover, and the gadroons on the bowl are white; with stylized flower and foliage ornament in gold with red and blue highlights on the lobed and gadrooned areas. Round the edge of the foot there is a continuous spray of foliage, a row of scallops and a row of flowerheads all in gold.
History note: Florence where bought in 1857 by C. Redfern; W. Bateman and T. Bateman, Lomberdale House, Youlgrave, Derbyshire; sold Sotheby, Wilkson & Hodge, 14 April 1893, The Bateman Heirlooms. Catalogue of the First Portion of the Valuable and Important Collection of Works of Art & Antiquity, formed by the late W. Bateman, Esq., & T. Bateman, Esq. Of Lomberdale House, Youlgrave, Co. Derby, p. 6, lot 22; sold to Frank McClean for £61.
Frank McClean Bequest
Height: 33.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
15th Century, Late-16th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1500
A ciborium is a liturgical vessel in which the consecrated Host (bread or wafers) for the Eucharist is kept
Enamels of this type have been attributed to Venice since at least the 1850s, but recent comparisons of scientific analyses of Venetian glass and the enamels indicates that this is unlikely. Possible alternatives are elsewhere in the Veneto, Florence or elsewhere in Tuscany, see Documentation Warren (2019), Verità, et al (2018) Barbe et al (2019)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( dark blue, dark green, dark red, and white)
gold
Finial
composed of
brass (alloy)
( probably)
Cup And Cover
composed of
copper
Bowl
Diameter 14.9 cm
Foot
Diameter 15.8 cm
Raising
: Copper, raised, enamelled in dark blue, dark green, dark red, and white, and gilded
Enamelling
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: M.25 & A-1904
Primary reference Number: 119204
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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