A PARCEL GILT ARMENIAN SILVER CHALICE in three sections joined by screw threads, the domed base with flaring lower lip worked in repoussé with three roundels depicting the Baptism, the Resurrection and the supper at Emmaus each within scrolling cloud surrounds, divided by vine branches and stems of wheat, the foot with a lengthy inscription in minuscules, the spun baluster stem plain, the rounded gilt bowl with outer silver skin worked in repoussé with dense scrolling clouds around figures of paired seraphim, probably Istanbul, mid 17th century | Christie's

拍品 379

379

A PARCEL GILT ARMENIAN SILVER CHALICE in three sections joined by screw threads, the domed base with flaring lower lip worked in repoussé with three roundels depicting the Baptism, the Resurrection and the supper at Emmaus each within scrolling cloud surrounds, divided by vine branches and stems of wheat, the foot with a lengthy inscription in minuscules, the spun baluster stem plain, the rounded gilt bowl with outer silver skin worked in repoussé with dense scrolling clouds around figures of paired seraphim, probably Istanbul, mid 17th century

細節

A PARCEL GILT ARMENIAN SILVER CHALICE in three sections joined by screw threads, the domed base with flaring lower lip worked in repoussé with three roundels depicting the Baptism, the Resurrection and the supper at Emmaus each within scrolling cloud surrounds, divided by vine branches and stems of wheat, the foot with a lengthy inscription in minuscules, the spun baluster stem plain, the rounded gilt bowl with outer silver skin worked in repoussé with dense scrolling clouds around figures of paired seraphim, probably Istanbul, mid 17th century
9¾in. (24.9cm.) high

拍品專文

The inscription can translate: 'This chalice commemorates Zoghateay village ...... St. George's Church in Istanbul in the common ..... of the foreign brothers [of the] living and departed souls, the year 1642'.