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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER CHALICE
FRENCH, MID 17TH CENTURY
With hallmarks on the rim and under the foot, the foot formerly with a viscount's (?) armorial shield, traces of which remain, and now engraved with three crosses, the instruments of the Passion, and a marquess's armorial shield surmounted by a coronet and supported by rampant lions.
10in. (25.4cm.) high
FRENCH, MID 17TH CENTURY
With hallmarks on the rim and under the foot, the foot formerly with a viscount's (?) armorial shield, traces of which remain, and now engraved with three crosses, the instruments of the Passion, and a marquess's armorial shield surmounted by a coronet and supported by rampant lions.
10in. (25.4cm.) high