Artifacts - Ivory/Silver - Belgium Tankard c. 1600 The design, carved in ivory, is probably that of Rubens or another painter of the Flemish Baroque school. It depicts a Bacchanalian procession. best of its class, body of vessel carved ivory, wine, alco

Artifacts - Silver/Gold - France Chalice of St. Remigius from Reims (a wine cup used in the communion service) 13th century. The significance of the rite in the Christian religion has its origins in the epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians (1 Corinth

Artifacts - Silver - Germany Silver Goblet by Wenzel Jamnitzer, the famed goldsmith of Nuremberg (1508-1586). Jamnitzer was born in the year Maximillian I became Emperor of The Holy Roman Empire and Michelangelo began to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Artifacts - Salver - Belgium Salver (dish) c. 1660 An example of repoussZ - a design method in which metal is first created by stamping a design from the back with hammers and then shaped by engraving (taken from the French verb - pousser - to push forwar

Artifacts - Silver - Germany Silver Cup, c. 1599.