[JONES] OLD CHURCH SILVER IN CANADA 145 



Tribut de. respect et de reconnoissance offert par les propriétaires et 

 assureurs du Brig. Rosalind de Londres, CAPT. BOYLE, au Revd. 

 Messire Asselin Ptre. Curé de St. Louis DE V ISLE A UX COUD RES 

 pour avoir par son Exemple engagé ses paroissiens à aider à sauver le 

 Vaisseau et sa Cargaison jetés par les glaces sur cette *Isle le 27 Nov. 

 1832 et pour ses bontés envers les naufragés pendant Leur séjour 



SUR L'ISLE. 



A bishop's candlestick is his third production, having been made 

 for Bishop Plessis. 



The fourth and last Amyot piece is a little plain ewer, quasi- 

 classical in form, with a beaded lip and a fluted border on the base. 



When the Basilica of Quebec was re-built in the 18th century it 

 was furnished with sacred silver vessels from the ateliers of Quebec 

 goldsmiths. The objects of greatest interest to the writer were those 

 by the local rivals, Ranvoyzé and Amyot. By the first are a large 

 Holy Water bowl, fluted and chased with foliage; some censers of 

 different decorations; an ostensorium converted into a reliquary; two 

 acolyte candlesticks of different designs, one being dated 1799, and a 

 pax. Amyot is represented by silver cruets on an oval dish. 



The writer absolves himself from possible mistakes in ascribing 

 dates to some of the French and other European silver, owing to the 

 prohibition that certain sacred vessels of the church should not be 

 handled by a layman, and therefore a careful examination was impos- 

 sible. 



In the General Hospital, founded in 1693, are several pieces of 

 Ecclesiastical and domestic silver of much interest — French, English 

 and Canadian. 



The French silver begins wùth a pair of acolyte candlesticks, with 

 their circular bases decorated with acanthus leaves, their baluster 

 stems being similarly decorated; these date from the end of the 17th 

 century. Of the same date is a pair of cruets for wine and water, 

 embellished with symbols of the Passion. A late sevententh-century 

 French chalice is similar to one at Indian Lorette, and bears the same 

 unknown maker's stamp, P.R., as a small bell-shaped beaker in the 

 hospital. A somewhat undecorated ciborium is inscribed, Ex voto 

 1701. 



The French silver of the eighteenth century includes a charming 

 pair of domestic candlesticks, circular in plan, with baluster stems and 

 fluted borders; and a small plain sanctuary bell. There are also four 

 typically French beakers of this period. 



A censer of late seventeenth century Spanish origin in the hospital 

 was the gift of Bishop de Saint- Valier, its pious founder, who came from 



Sec. I & II, Sig. 10 



