Word: paten
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...world's finest craftsmen: goldsmiths, jewelers, wizards who worked in enamel. The Treasury of San Marco Venice (Abrams; 337 pages; $60) displays the loot, and poring over the glittering pictures is like wandering in a celestial gem shop. Among the glories here are a lyrical alabaster-and-pearl paten, which may have come from St. Sophia, and an opulent, dappled sardonyx chalice decorated with enamel figures that resemble mini-mosaics. There are treasuries or reliquaries in important churches all over Europe, but very few gladden the worldly connoisseur's eye like this...
STANFORD. Calif.--The office of Technology Licensing at Stanford is optimistic that the United States Patent Office will reconsider and issue the university a paten for gene splicing and cloning techniques...
...made an astonishing discovery: a complete set of Communion vessels dating from the 8th or early 9th century. The choicest piece was a two-handled silver chalice, 8 in. high and ornamented with gold filigree and amber studs. With it, the contractor found a matching silver tray, called a paten, and a gilt-bronze ladle with perforations to strain grape pulp from the sacramental wine...
...Ardagh chalice did not have a paten or strainer with...
...prevent amateur fortune hunters from scouring the ruins before experts from Dublin's National Museum got there, the Irish government invoked the Official Secrets Act and declared a 25-sq.-mi. zone around Killenaule a protected area. The chalice, paten and strainer, when found, were covered with a beaten bronze bowl; experts presume that monks had deliberately hidden them in the bog, probably to protect them from marauding Irishmen or even Vikings...