Chalice
1275-1325 (made)
| Place of origin |
Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Rased and engraved gilded silver with niello decoration |
| Brief description | Chalice, silver-gilt and niello, Germany, 1300. |
| Physical description | Silver-gilt chalice on a flat, spreading, circular foot, a chased stem decorated with oak leaves and acorns; the shaped knop with six circular bosses, each decorated with niello lettering, which supports a straight sided tapered bowl. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | I h E S V S (This inscription appears frequently on the comparatively small group of known Gothic chalices produced in Nuremberg from around 1450 to 1540. Around fifty such chalices were surveyed by Heinrich Kohlhaussen for his volume on medieval Nuremberg silver (see references). Around ten of these have comparable inscriptions on the bosses of the nodus.)
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| Credit line | The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| Object history | Provenance Acquired by Arthur Gilbert from S.J. Phillips Ltd, London, 1994. |
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| Summary | Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996. |
| Bibliographic reference | Kohlhaussen, Heinrich. Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst des Mittelalters und der Dürerzeit. 1240 bis 1540. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1968. Pp. 180-202 [chapter on chalices]. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | LOAN:GILBERT.92-2008 |
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| Record created | June 19, 2008 |
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