Chalice with the Arms of Housteyn
This chalice, with a hexagonal knop and stellate base, represents a type popular in the Rhineland and the Lowlands around 1400. The underside of the base is engraved with the names of five members of the Housteyn family, including Gryta Housteyn, whose name also appears on the lozenges of the knop. The coat of arms presumably also identifies the Housteyn family, some of whom lived at Frasselt, near Kranenburg, in the duchy of Cleves, in present-day Germany.
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