chalice

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Object Type
Museum number: 1968,1206.1
Title: Object: Noble Chalice
Description: Chalice; silver parcel-gilt; broad circular bowl; stem and spirally fluted writhen knot partly gilt; hatched decoration on circular spreading foot designed with painted leaves and gilt-moulded rim; slightly damaged crease on one side of foot; rough cross incised or scratched into one of pendant foliate lobes decorating the foot.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1250 (circa)
Production place: Made in: England
Materials: silver; gold
Technique: parcel-gilded; moulded; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 129 millimetres (bowl); Height: 143 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Location: On display (G40/dc4)
Subjects: leaf; cross
Acquisition name
Funder name
Acquisition date: 1968
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1968,1206.1
Conservation: Treatment: 05 Dec 2008; Treatment

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