RUSSIAN SILVER ENAMEL FILIGREE ORTHODOX CROSS HOLY COMMUNITION CUP CHALICE ICON

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RUSSIAN SILVER ENAMEL FILIGREE ORTHODOX CROSS HOLY COMMUNITION CUP CHALICE ICON:
$12250.00

One of a kind ! Its great fabulous unique 84 silver & enamel very large piece from Russian Imperial history. Very special rare episcopal or patriarchal artifact, exclusive art spiritual artifact from RUSSIAN IMPERIAL CHURCH for memorials, or the use on the church parishioners for Holy Communion. Majestic, exclusive, wonderful and very rare object.

The chalice is made of solid 84 silver and masterfully decorated. The cup is decorated with 8 oval enamel icons and a very beautiful, masterfully made filigree. The cup stim is decorated with 4 gilded biblical scenes. The stand and base are decorated with pale blue enamel. The base is decorated with 4 different elliptical enamel icons of the Virgin Mary and a beautiful, very fine filigree. Between the icons of the stand are placed 4 light blue round enameled details, and on each of them is placed a monogram of the Russian Emperor Alexander III. On the edge of the chalice there is an openwork gilded inscription in Old Slavonic.

The Crurch Chalice comes from a large private collection and come from the ex USSR. Very little ecclesiastical items survived the various political upheavals of the twentieth century, as much of it was confiscated and destroyed by the communistic power.

CHALICE height - 21.8 cm. / more of 8.5/8\" inches

Diameter of the cup - 9.0 cm. / appr. 3.1/2\" inches

Diameter of the base - 9.4 cm. / 3.5/8\" inches

Weight - 506.3 gr. solid 84 Silver.

Such a beautiful and rare ecclesiastical superior collectors item falls in a collector\'s hands once in a lifetime, most often - never !

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