CHALICE
Creator(s): Fedor Petrov (Silversmith)
On view in: Icon Room
About this object
The cup is in gilt and set in a silver basket-like openwork of interlaced quatre foils. This has four oval enameled medallions surrounded by table-cut paste stones. These are enameled with 1. Christ blessing, 2. St. John the Baptist holding a cup and a scroll, 3. Christ on the cross, 4. the Mother of God. The central portion is an urn-shaped baluster. The base has a repoussé design of leaves and flowers and is set with four medallions each surrounded with table cut paste stones. These medallions have the following scenes: 1. Gethsemane, 2. Christ before Caiphas, the high priest, 3. the road to Calvary, 4. the Entombment. In each Christ is identified by an inscription. Around the cup runs the inscription in Russian: "Accept the Body of Christ; taste of the Immortal Source."
- Object name:
- CHALICE
- Made from:
- Silver -- parcel gilt -- enamel
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1791
- Size:
- 31.8 x 12.2 cm (12 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.86
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARKS Ф.П [F.P in Cyrillic, for Fedor Petrov, active 1760-91], St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, an illegible mark, АОП [AOP in Cyrillic in a heart-shaped mark] [on lip]; АОП; A.B [A.V in Cyrillic, unidentified master, active 1791-98] [on baluster]; illegible mark, 1791 [on base] INSCRIPTIONS "Accept the Body of Christ, taste of the Immortal Source." [engraved in Cyrillic around the lip of the cup]; in each instance scenes are identified with initials in Cyrillic [on enameled medallions]; ФП [?] [FP [?] in Cyrillic, intertwined] / --3--12 [engraved, underneath]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973