Lot 18
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AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL PEWTER SEPULCHRAL CHALICE
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AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL PEWTER SEPULCHRAL CHALICE

14TH CENTURY

Details
AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL PEWTER SEPULCHRAL CHALICE
14TH CENTURY
With a wide bowl, the stem with twin fillets, the foot decorated with two raised lines, restored
3½in. (8.9cm.) high
Literature
Museum of London 1989, Pewter, A celebration of the craft, No.11.
Hornsby, Pewter of the Western World, No.153
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Lot Essay

Found during excavations for a croquet lawn at Stoneleigh Abbey in 1908. Chalices of this type with a high lead content were frequently buried with priests from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
See the J.Pewter.Soc Spring 1986, for details of three further chalices, and Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum, No.6

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