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An enamelled drop is suspended from the base.<br><br><b>Subjects Depicted</b><br>An angel holds the chalice of the Holy Grail, painted with a red cross, 'to show you lose yourself to gain yourself', as Phoebe Traquair once wrote to Percy nobbs, a friend of her son. This was an image that Traquair used and reworked frequently. It first appeared in a mural for a Scottish mortuary chapel in the 1880s with the title, 'Can ye drink of the Cup that I have drunk of?'<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Phoebe Traquair used translucent enamels which enabled the metallic ground to reflect light back through the glass, adding luminosity.  This technique was developed to the highest level in 14th-century  France and is generally known as <i>basse taille</i>.<br><br><b>Historical Associations</b><br>Traquair produced several pieces of enamel for friends but most of her work was sent to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London where she sold about 30 pieces in 1903 and another 10 in 1906. 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She used historical forms and techniques, often mixed with classical and mythological design sources. The enamelled plaques relate the story of Persephone, daughter of the Greek goddess of nature. The figures, flowers and insects represent spring.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["M.192-1976"],"accessionNumberNum":"192","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1976,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LU8911"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}