Chalice (1732): Art, History and Details
Chalice at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1732, silver gilt. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Chalice (1732) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Antonio Lopez (Spanish).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
To make this chalice, Antonio Lopez probably worked from a drawn or printed design. The vessel features seraphim, the highest order of angels, interspersed with scrolling vignettes of scenes from Christ’s suffering and death. The etched “Sobrado” on the base suggests that the chalice may have once been used to celebrate Catholic Mass at the Cistercian abbey church of Sobrado in northwest Spain.
Object facts
- Title: Chalice
- Date: 1732
- Creator attribution: Antonio Lopez (Spanish)
- Culture: Spain
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: silver gilt
- Dimensions: Overall: 29.7 x 15.9 cm (11 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Accession number: 1966.15
Collection credit
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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