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Bowl deep and conical; stem 15 10. hexagonal, with ornate knot; six-sided foot. In late instances the points of the latter terminate in knops. Type G. circa 15 10 to circa 1525. Bowl broader at base; stem and knot as in type F sexfoil foot. Type H. circa 1525 to circa 1540. Bowl broad and shallow; stem cabled or buttressed on edges, with knot as before, but somewhat flattened; foot sexfoil, or hexagonal with wavy sides, and with an open crown at its junction with the stem.
Type
F. circa 1450 to circa
;
PATENS. Type A. (Form quatrefoil
Type
circa 11 80 to circa central device various.
I) ;
1260.
Lower depression
Lower depression, or II) circa 1260 to circa 1300. single depression, octofoil or multiple; central device usually the Manns Dei.
B.
(Form
I
or
Type
(Form I) circa 1300 to circa 1350, and later. Lower depression sexfoil with plain spandrels; central device usually the Manns Dei.
C.
Lower depression sexI) circa 1430 to circa 1530. but spandrels filled with a rayed leaf ornament. Central device most frequently the Vernicle, with, in many cases, an Some of the later examples encircling glory of short rays. of this type have an engraved legend round the rim.
Type D. (Form foil,
Type
E.
(Form
pression, device.
Type
Type
II) circa 1450 to circa 15 10. with more generally iljc or
Single circular de:Ij5
as
the central
(Form I) circa 1525. An elaboration of type D, which it resembles in general form, but the central device has a glory of long rays filling the field of the paten, and the rim bears
F.
an engraved legend. An elaboration of type G. (Form II) circa 1520 to circa 1535. E. Single circular depression, with central device surrounded by a glory of long rays. The rim bears an engraved The only two examples of this type have the legend. Vernicle as the central device.
Form I comprises patens with plain circular depression, with an inner depression multifoil in outline and Form II those with one depression only, either circular or multifoil. From this sketch it will be seen that the amount of mediaeval :
Communion plate remaining is very limited. Throughout England there are not above forty chalices and about twice that number of patens now in existence. The
display of gold and silver plate, much of it being ornajewels, in our cathedrals, abbeys and churches, previous The to the Reformation, must have been wonderfully beautiful. number of vessels possessed was considerable, and the value of the
mented with