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Chalice
Living room furniture Casablanca
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Console
Passalacqua cabinet
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Chalice
Living room furniture Casablanca
Cassone of the three dukes
Console
Passalacqua cabinet
Stop
Nicodemus
Lounge chair
Chest of drawers with chinoiserie decoration

Chalice

Anonymous

Displayed in:

Museum of Furniture and Wooden Sculptures

Museum of Furniture and Wooden Sculptures

Piazza Castello, Milan

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Symbol of the collection of glasses, the crystalline glass chalice was probably commissioned by a successor of Francesco Sforza, perhaps Ludovico il Moro. Adorned with drops of red and white enamel and golden hemispheres, it bears two Sforza heraldic plaques surmounted by a golden ducal crown. In the quadripartite coat of arms we recognize the Visconti snakes and the imperial eagles. The only precious survivor of a table service for the Lords of Milan, the glass, restored to the knot in the seventeenth century, was purchased in 1900.
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Title: Chalice

Author: Anonymous

Date: XV sec.

Technique: Glass

Displayed in: Museum of Furniture and Wooden Sculptures

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