Note 36 — NEW ACQUISITIONS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS

It is distinctive of chalices of the twelfth century and earlier that the bowl either is separated from the knop by only a narrow interval or springs directly from it. Compare the examples of the eighth to twelfth century figured in Otte’s Handbuch, and the French examples of the Church of St. Gauzelin and of St. Rémy. (Exposition rétrospective, Paris, 1900. Catalogue illustré, pp. 65, 73.) It may be remarked that only one of these examples exhibits the slightly turned-out lip which characterizes English chalices of early date. (See Hope and Fallow, ‘English Medieval Chalices and Patens,’ Archaeological Journal, xliii, 142.)