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Silversmith: Unknown
Silver, silver-gilt and coper-gilt; silver bowl with copper-gilt stem and foot set with plaques and enamelled in black
Silver, silver-gilt and coper-gilt; the silver V-shaped silver bowl has an everted gilt rim and gilt interior. It rests on a copper-gilt calyx engraved with leaves. The copper-gilt hexagonal stem is enamelled in black with a pattern of leaves, and has two knops. The first is large with six lobes set with two engraved coats-of-arms and four religious plaques, which include Christ, the man of Sorrows, the Virgin Mary, a bishop and another. The smaller knop has a vertical band enamelled in black with the inscription 'AVE. MARIA. GRACIA. PERNA (sic). DOMINVS. STEC(VM)'. The low copper-gilt trumpet-shaped foot has a shaped circular spreading base with rim of twelve alternating semicircular and pointed lobes. It is set with six octagonal plaques enamelled in black of saints and angels, including the Virgin Mary, St. Peter, St. Paul, an angel, possibly the Archangel Gabriel, and two other saints.
History note: Not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, first half
Circa
1400
-
1450
The inscription is a variant of Ave Maria Gratia Plena
Stem And Foot
composed of
copper
Surface
composed of
gold
Cup
composed of
silver
Rim
Diameter 10.1 cm
Diameter 4 in
Base
Diameter 12.9 cm
Diameter 5⅛ in
To Rim
Height 19.4 cm
Height 7⅝ in
Decoration
Inscription present: PERNA should be PLENA
Accession number: MAR.M.64-1912
Primary reference Number: 119295
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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