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View full screenChalice with plain silver-gilt bowl, to the underside of which is attached a silver tang for fixing in a wooden stem and base, from Roy Ritchie's excavations at Whithorn Priory, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, 13th century
H.1992.1838
13th century
Silver-gilt bowl; silver tang; mineralised fragments of wood
Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Angels, Nobles and Unicorns: Art and Patronage in Medieval Scotland (12 Aug 1982 - 26 Sep 1982)
Royal Museum of Scotland
Glenn, Virginia, Romanesque & Gothic: Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland, NMSE Publishing, Edinburgh, 2003
Caldwell, D.H. (ed). Angels Nobles and Unicorns: Art and Patronage in Medieval Scotland. Edinburgh: NMS, 1982
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