A chalice decorated with the four Evangelists and the arms of the von Sundhausens of Thuringia
c. 1330-1340
Germany, Thuringia, Nordhausen?
14.5 cm (height) x 11.1 cm (diameter at foot), 307 grams; Gilded silver with cast roundels soldered to the foot, and black basse-taille enamelled bosses to the knop and foot; the calyx replaced.
Exhibited
Ein rheinischer Silberschatz – Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 14 May – 27 July 1980, no. 2
