Lot 54 | Chalice made of gilt copper, coloured enamel and partially gilt silver

CHALICE MADE OF GILT COPPER, COLOURED ENAMEL AND PARTIALLY GILT SILVER.

Toskana.
Date: Last quarter of the 14th century.
Technique: Gilt copper, colored enamel, partially gilt silver.
Description: Wide twelve-foil foot with profiled frame, engraved decoration on the upper side
reminiscent of a finial. Six-foil rising from the middle and merging into the
correspondingly shaped foot via a profiled middle section. Foot decorated with geometric
patterns in red and black enamel in champlevé technique. On the sturdy nodus with leaf
relief, circumferential sixround silver rotuly with depictions of the Virgin Mary, Ecce
homo, John Evangelista, Archangel Gabriel, St. Paul and a cardinal's coat of arms. The
small domed basket with ornamental engravings in round medallions, upwards ending in
smaller and larger pikes.
Measurement: Height 19,5cm.
Mark: Bowl with Dutch tax mark for foreign works (Tardy p.322).
Kuppa later addition.


Provenance:
- Collection Giovanni Raspini.
- Private collection southern Germany.

Literature:
Sabbadini Sodi, Chiara: Oreficerie Toscane Medioevali e Rinascimentali Nella Collezione Raspini, Firenze 2009.
The goblet described and illustrated in detail on p.46f. Here also a detailed comparison of styles for dating purposes.