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Chalice and Paten
Pedro Hernández Atenciano (Spanish (worked in Guatemala and Peru), 1510–1584)
about 1560
Object Place: Santiago de los Caballeros (La Antigua), Guatemala
Medium/Technique
Silver-gilt
Dimensions
Overall (Chalice): 28.3 x 19.1 cm, 1399 gm (11 1/8 x 7 1/2 in., 3.08 lb.)
Overall (Paten): 15.4 x 0.3 cm (6 1/16 x 1/8 in.)
Overall (Paten): 15.4 x 0.3 cm (6 1/16 x 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas, Jr., Kathleen, Daniel, Claire, Ann, and Timothy Phillips in memory of Thomas and Clare Phillips
Accession Number2011.2101.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
ProvenanceBy the mid-1930s to early 1940s, Sherburne and Marjorie Wiggin Prescott collection, Greenwich, Connecticut; 4 February 1981, sold in “Important English, Continental and American Silver, Objects of Vertu, Russian Works of Art and Watches,” Christies, New York, lot 235, to Jacques Kugel, Paris; 1982 or 1983, sold by Kugel to private collector, Lisbon; 30 October 2008, sold by private collector at “European Silver, Gold Boxes, and Objects of Vertu,” Sotheby's, Paris, lot 171, to Timothy Phillips, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2011, year-end-gift of Timothy Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)