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A SPANISH SILVER-GILT AND ENAMELLED CHALICE
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A SPANISH SILVER-GILT AND ENAMELLED CHALICE

CIRCA 1620-30, PROBABLY MADRID, APPARENTLY UNMARKED

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A SPANISH SILVER-GILT AND ENAMELLED CHALICE
Circa 1620-30, probably Madrid, apparently unmarked
On cast slightly domed spreading foot applied at intervals with oval and rectangular enamelled bosses decorated in scarlet, blue and white, with scrolls and strapwork, and prick-engraved with scrolling foliage ornament, the cylindrical lower part of the stem between beaded bands and rising from plain band with four double scrolls, and enamelled with similar oval bosses, the vase-shaped stem similarly decorated, the plain detachable bowl engraved with cross fitchée, pricked with scrolling foliage and partly enclosed with alternate plain vertical straps and straps with enamelled ovals and circular bosses.
11 in. (28 cm.) high
Gross weight 33 oz. (1,033 gr.)
Provenance
Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Bt. (1850-1912), Bath House, London, by whom bequeathed, with a life interest to his widow, Alice, Lady Wernher, subsequently Lady Ludlow (1862-1945), to their son
Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt., G.C.V.O. (1893-1973), Bath House, London, and from 1948, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, and by descent.
Literature
1913 Bath House Inventory, p. 129, no. 644, in the safe.
1914 Wernher Inventory, p. 85, no. 428.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

C. Oman (The Golden Age of Hispanic Silver 1400-1665, London, 1968, fig. 238) illustrates a gilt-bronze chalice with enamelled and silver bowl dated 1628, of similar form. The red and white enamel decoration is typical of Madrid workshops of the early seventeenth century.

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