MAKE A MEME View Large Image French - Pyx - Walters 44252.jpg 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 ...
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Keywords: French - Pyx - Walters 44252.jpg 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 late Other date century 13 Medieval champlevé enamel on copper with gilding and glass cm 11 3 6 9 8 6 accession number 44 252 14375 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 Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters The Arts of Man Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 1962 place of origin Limoges France Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Champlevé of Europe Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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