Russian Golden Chalice. Commissioned By Catherine The Great In 1791.

This most magnificent piece is a Gold Chalice that Catherine The Great commissioned, as part of a Communion Set, in 1791. It was made in Saint Petersburg, by Iver Windfeldt Buch, of gold, diamonds, chalcedony, bloodstone, nephrite, carnelian, and cast glass.

Illustration: THE DAILY GLEAN