Chalice, The base of the round chalice has a straight-walled base. It is made up of a concave tapered section above which an arched constricted section. Cable edges run in opposite directions along the underside of the arched section and around its narrowest point. The egg-shaped nodus, the lower part of which is decorated with grunts, rests on a profiled, rejuvenating pedestal, above that a coil-shaped part, articulated by a cable edge, above that again a cable edge, flanked by profiles, then a concave tapered part on which the curved cuppa rests. The lower part of the cuppa is encased in a countercuppa, decorated with grunts above which an openwork gallery of pointed arches, closed at the top by a fillet edge. The cuppa is gilded on the inside. A cross is engraved on the foot., Jacobus Carrenhoff, Amsterdam, c. 1820, silver (metal), gilding, h 25.0 cm × d 12.9 cm × w 418 gr
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