Communion Cup and Cover
1576-1577
Artists
Description
The cup with straight-sided tapering bowl on domed spreading circular foot applied with reeded bands, rising to a knopped stem, engraved with a horizontal band of arabesques within strapwork with foliate sprays at intervals; the domed cover with applied reeded rim, engraved with a band of arabesques, with a flat spool-form foot engraved 1576.
Dimensions
19 x 7.9 cm (7 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.) 204.4 g
Provenance
Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Museum, 1966.
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