Who offers is not necessarily who does
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The study published in Portvgalia magazine in 1995 explains an old confusion: D. Gueda Mendes was taken by goldsmiths, when the inscription should be understood as a reference to who ordered the play. The chalice is associated with 1152, but the study does not confirm whether the donor still lived on that date or whether the order fulfilled a testamentary disposition. The story of the object therefore includes certainties and open questions.
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Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro — Cálice, ficha da coleção no Google Arts & Culture
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