Mass Chalice
The chalice rests on a hexafoil foot with a high plinth and a collar decorated with colored enamel, as well as an openwork frieze featuring figures of angels, lions, bears, and dolphins. The lobes of the foot feature cloisonné/filigree enamel ornaments—plant scrolls and vases with flowers. One of the lobes bears a shield with the coat of arms of the Bishopric of Wrocław and the initials S S. The stem is hexagonal with a collar (disk), decorated with engraving and colored enamel. The knop is oval and flattened, adorned with six oval stones of a light red hue. The cup is plain, set in a calyx (basket) decorated with a vegetal ornament featuring colored enamel.
Engraved inscription on the underside edge of the foot: STANISLAVS. SAUR. CANO. VRATISSL. A: MDXVIII. Secondary inventory number 48 and a Prussian tax stamp (contribution mark) from the years 1809–1812.
This is the earlier of two chalices preserved in Wrocław Cathedral founded by Stanisław Sauer, a Wrocław canon and vicar general of the chapter, one of the most important figures in Silesian ecclesiastical life in the first half of the 16th century, a promoter of the Counter-Reformation, and a patron of the arts. His Renaissance tomb is located in the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross in Wrocław.
Authorship of the chalice is attributed by researchers to the Wrocław goldsmith Erasmus Schleupner, whose work combines Silesian Late Gothic traditions with influences of the Nuremberg and Hungarian Renaissance.
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