CHALICE
Creator(s): Ivan Mikhailov (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The large spreading base is decorated with an all over pattern of rococo scrolls and set with six irregular shaped cartouches with scenes in niello on silver with a stippled and gilt background.The scenes in the cartouches are: 1. Gethsemane, 2. Christ before Pilate, 3. the crowning with thorns and 4. Christ on the way to Calvary. In several instances Christ is identified with inscriptions. The central knop is three sided with a very elaborate rococo cartouche on each side, partly in silver and partly gilt. On the cup itself is in parcel gilt with an openwork trellis effect in silver to contrast with the gilding. There are four irregular cartouches set in elaborate rococo frames. The cartouches are in niello on silver with stippled and gilt background. The scenes are: 1. the Crucifixion, 2. the Mother of God on a cloud, 3. Christ standing on a cloud, and 4. St. John the Baptist standing on a cloud. Around the upper lip of the chalice runs the inscription: [transcription].
- Object name:
- CHALICE
- Made from:
- Silver -- parcel gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1774
- Size:
- 36.5 x 23.5 cm (14 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.83
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARKS St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, I.C / 1774, [essayer's mark for Ivan Savelev, 1772-78], И.М [I.M in Cyrillic, maker's mark for Ivan Mikhailov] [On the lip of the chalice, the fretwork covering the bowl, and on the base]. INSCRIPTIONS "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them" [engraved in Cyrillic around the lip of the cup]; in each instance scenes are identified with initials in Cyrillic [on medallions]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973