Chalice à soleil, 1532–33, French, Paris, Silver gilt, Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm), Metalwork-Silverplate, This chalice, made in the early French Renaissance, is decorated with motifs that derived from the late medieval period: wavy sun rays on the bowl and dome of the foot, which evoke the meditation on the Sacred Monogram as preached by Saint Bernardin of Siena (d
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