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Keywords: Italian - Chalice - Walters 44463.jpg Enamels with bust-length figures of sainted bishops appear on the cup Depictions of Christ as the Man of Sorrows Christ with the wounds of his Passion the Virgin and John the Evangelist are on the base The portraits of bishops connected the priest who used the cup to his sacred predecessors The figure of the dead Christ alludes directly to the object's function as a vessel for sacramental wine which according to the Catholic Church was transformed during the Mass into the blood of Christ ca 1450 1475 gilded silver and copper with silver and painted enamel cm 20 8 accession number 44 463 31149 Geheimrat R von Passavant Arnold Seligmann Rey and Company date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore July 1931 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1931 The Book of Kings Art War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Academy of the Arts Easton Easton; Princeton University Art Museum Princeton; The Mitchell Gallery Annapolis; Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown 2002 place of origin north Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Painted enamel art in the Walters Art Museum
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