Chalice

Work Number: 580160
Title: Chalice
Approximate date: 1411
Dimensions: H 21 cm. D at base 10.5 cm
Description: Silver and vermeil. Enamels on base: Crucifixion with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, Arms of France. Inscriptions: KAROLUS FRANCOR REX ME DEDIT VTN CALICE ECCHE STE KATERINE DE MONTE SYNAY ANNO DNY MCCCXI. Orate P(RO) EO.
Medium: Silver and vermeil metalwork. Enamels.
Language: Latin, Greek
Subject: Jesus Christ, Crucifixion; Saints
Bibliographic Citation: Rabino, M. H. L., Le monastere de Sainte-Catherine du Mont Sinai, 1958, pp. 44-45, 108, and pl. XVIII.

Rabino, M. H. L. "Le monastere de Sainte-Catherine (Mont Sinai); Souvenirs epigraphiques des anciens pelerins," Bulletin de la Societe Royale de geographie d'Egypte, 19, 1935, pp. 21-126, pl. VII.

Labib, Mahfouz. Pelerins et voyageurs au Mont Sinai (Recherches d'archeologic, de philologie et d'histoire, 25), Cairo, L'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1961, pl. 4.
Provenance: Gallery, Case 11