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[AC] Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; [HC] Hampshire College Art Gallery;
[HD] Historic Deerfield; [MH] Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; [MH SK] The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College; [SC] Smith College Museum of Art; [UM] University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

 


Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:German; Rhenish
Title:Pyx
Date Made:ca. 1400
Type:Container; Ceremonial
Materials:Silver with gilding
Place Made:Europe; Germany; possibly Cologne
Measurements:Overall: 11 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 28.3 cm x 8.9 cm x 8.9 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1985.11
Credit Line:Purchase with the Art Advisory Board Fund, Marian Hayes Art Museum Fund and Jepson Fund of the Department of Art in honor of Susan Eisenhart Schilling (Class of 1932)
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Currently on view

Description:
standing pyx; silver; plain, smooth-walled hexagonal body and spire-like cover with applied gold-plated stamped borders; tripart foot and knop, decorated with hatched engraving; crucifix finial; strengthening between stem and body

Tags:
religion; decoration and ornament; vessels

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