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Source Description
This pyx (box) preserved any consecrated wafers left over from the Mass for use on the following day, or to be taken to the sick or dying. Limoges craftsmen often fashioned pyxes in the form of small towers or church steeples, in reference to the "body," or building, of the church preserving the Host, or "body" of Christ.
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Document identity
localId
14375
label
Pyx
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
14375
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Pyx
description
This pyx (box) preserved any consecrated wafers left over from the Mass for use on the following day, or to be taken to the sick or dying. Limoges craftsmen often fashioned pyxes in the form of small towers or church steeples, in reference to the "body," or building, of the church preserving the Host, or "body" of Christ.
provenance
Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, Paris, April 17, 1893, no. 269; Charles Borradaile, Brighton, England, by purchase; George Robinson Harding, London, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 13th century (Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Enamels
pyxes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
11.3
height
6.9
depth
8.6
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 7/16 x W: 2 11/16 x D: 3 3/8 in. (11.3 x 6.9 x 8.6 cm)
Source extras
cul
French
style
Gothic
med
champlevé enamel on gilded copper, glass
creator_ids
6229
collection_ids
MED
exhibition_ids
796
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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b68be7712b797d18