A very tall ornate chalice with deep bowl, straight rim, urn shaped knop, balustral flanged stem and flattened stepped domed foot.
The bowl has applied ribs and winged cherub heads beneath a horizontal flange whilst the knop also has applied ribs. The stem has applied foliate and star decoration. The foot has four grooved lobes encircling winged cherub heads. Maker’s mark: MF (3 times) for Mark Fallon, Galway.
Based on Spanish design of the 17th century.
Inscription (1): ‘Orate Pro animabus Tomae Lynch et Margaritae French uxoris eius et nepotis eorum Joannis Barneval 1725’.
Inscription (2): ‘Pertinet Ad Monast. Jeus et Mariae O.P. Galviae’.
