The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Pyx (lid)
c. 1300
Diameter: 4.8 x 7.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation 1970.125.b
Location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture
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.- Franz Trau, Vienna; (Blumka Gallery, Inc.).
- Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe, 1270 - 1330. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (February 2-27, 1977).Eucharistic Vessels. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (March 14-April 26, 1975).
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