An Antique Silver-Gilt German Chalice, c. 1350
Height: 6 1/4"
Weight: 7 oz. 5 dwt.
Weight: 7 oz. 5 dwt.
Freiburg
H0526
$ 45,000.00
Further images
The otherwise plain conical foot rising from a border of die-struck X motifs to a large compressed fluted knop flanked by two bands of die-struck roundels enclosing quatrefoils within beaded...
The otherwise plain conical foot rising from a border of die-struck X motifs to a large compressed fluted knop flanked by two bands of die-struck roundels enclosing quatrefoils within beaded borders, plain flared bowl.
The underside of the foot is struck with a single mark (apparently the letter F with a rectangle) and a zig-zag assay scrape. A small blemish to the upper surface of the foot suggests that it was once mounted with a crucifix. For a chalice of similar form with a knop flanked by apparently identical die-struck bands of roundels enclosing quatrefoils within beaded borders, thought to have been made at Freiburg im Breisgau about 1350, which is in the Freiburg i.B. Münsterschatz, see Johann Michael Fritz, "Goldschmiedekunst der Gotik in Metteleuropa", Munich, 1982, p. 213, pl. 210.
The underside of the foot is struck with a single mark (apparently the letter F with a rectangle) and a zig-zag assay scrape. A small blemish to the upper surface of the foot suggests that it was once mounted with a crucifix. For a chalice of similar form with a knop flanked by apparently identical die-struck bands of roundels enclosing quatrefoils within beaded borders, thought to have been made at Freiburg im Breisgau about 1350, which is in the Freiburg i.B. Münsterschatz, see Johann Michael Fritz, "Goldschmiedekunst der Gotik in Metteleuropa", Munich, 1982, p. 213, pl. 210.