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    "localId": "144913",
    "label": "Pyx",
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}

{
    "id": "144913",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pyx",
    "description": "A pyx is a container designed to hold the consecrated Eucharist wafers between masses. It was probably used by the clergy to administer communion to the sick and dying; its small size made it easily portable. The decoration relates to similar liturgical objects made in the ecclesiastical and artistic center of Salzburg for the cathedral treasury of that city.",
    "date": "c.1300",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.125",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60778809"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.125/1970.125_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.125/1970.125_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.125/1970.125_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 4.8 x 7.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Austria, probably Salzburg, 14th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1970.125"
}

{
    "tec": "silver and gilt silver",
    "tombstone": "Pyx , c.1300. Austria, probably Salzburg, 14th century. Silver and gilt silver; diameter: 4.8 x 7.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation, 1970.125",
    "collection": "MED - Gothic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 59, no. 4 (April 1972): 87–111.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 94-95, figs. 21-22",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152426"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.125",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:26:49.735000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.125/1970.125_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 144913,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "silver and gilt silver",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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