Chalice

Description

Chalice with plain silver-gilt bowl, to the underside of which is attached a silver tang for fixing in a wooden stem and base, from Roy Ritchie's excavations at Whithorn Priory, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, 13th century

Museum reference

H.1992.1838

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Chalice

Date

13th century

Materials

Silver-gilt, Silver, Wood

Physical description

Silver-gilt bowl; silver tang; mineralised fragments of wood

Collection place(s)

Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Angels, Nobles and Unicorns: Art and Patronage in Medieval Scotland (12 Aug 1982 - 26 Sep 1982)
  Royal Museum of Scotland

References

Glenn, Virginia, Romanesque & Gothic: Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland, NMSE Publishing, Edinburgh, 2003

Caldwell, D.H. (ed). Angels Nobles and Unicorns: Art and Patronage in Medieval Scotland. Edinburgh: NMS, 1982

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

On display

national museum of scotland »
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kingdom of the scots »
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