Ivory Pyx with Scenes from the Passion of Christ
This pyx, a container used in the Catholic Mass for the consecrated wafer, has lost it cover. The artist was an ivory carver of the Sapi people of coastal West Africa who was working on commission from a Portuguese trader who expected to sell such exotic objects to princely pa...
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13267
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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7
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.108_VwD_DD_T11.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.108_VwD_DD_T11.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.108_VwD_DD_T11.jpg |
| imageCount | 7 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.108 |
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