Chalice

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The chalice is used to hold wine during the celebration of the Mass. The hallmark indicates that it may be the work of Juan Rodriguez de Cabra or of Juan Rodriguez de Luque, both silversmiths in the second half of the sixteenth century. The scrolled cartouches that surround the Virgin and Child, the four Evangelists, and other saints were Mannerist decorative devices that originated in Italy.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art