A Cologne silver communion chalice
A Cologne silver communion chalice
The eight-lobed base decorated with applied medallions depicting the Virgin Mary, the Crucifixion, and Saints Peter and Paul amid filigree decor and coloured stone cabochons. The cup resting in a basket with corresponding decor and engraved below the rim with a frieze depicting Saints George, Michael, Hubert and Gereon. With compressed quatrefoil node and enamelled shaft. Includes a, presumably replaced, patene and unmarked spoon. In the original case with replaced lining. H 22.8 cm, weight 1,033 g.
Marks of Franz Wüsten, designed by produced by August Wüsten, 1922.
Literature
Cf. a communion chalice by Wüsten in St. Mariä Empfängnis in Düsseldorf, illustrated in Lütkenhaus, Sakrale Goldschmiedekunst des Historismus im Rheinland, Berlin 1992, illus. 156. For more on Franz Wüsten's studio and his sons Franz and August cf. also ibid. p. 317 f.
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A Cologne silver communion chalice
The eight-lobed base decorated with applied medallions depicting the Virgin Mary, the Crucifixion, and Saints Peter and Paul amid filigree decor and coloured stone cabochons. The cup resting in a basket with corresponding decor and engraved below the rim with a frieze depicting Saints George, Michael, Hubert and Gereon. With compressed quatrefoil node and enamelled shaft. Includes a, presumably replaced, patene and unmarked spoon. In the original case with replaced lining. H 22.8 cm, weight 1,033 g.
Marks of Franz Wüsten, designed by produced by August Wüsten, 1922.
Literature
Cf. a communion chalice by Wüsten in St. Mariä Empfängnis in Düsseldorf, illustrated in Lütkenhaus, Sakrale Goldschmiedekunst des Historismus im Rheinland, Berlin 1992, illus. 156. For more on Franz Wüsten's studio and his sons Franz and August cf. also ibid. p. 317 f.
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