Editorial" Turkish" Monstrance, 1708, celebrates the victory of Don Juan d'Austria over a Turkish fleet near Lepanto in 1571. Detail: crow's nest of the Admiral's ship with Don Juan d'Austria. Silver pyx.
EditorialMonstrance, Eustach Hayd, d. 1674, Silver gilt, glass, Embossed acanthus boughs form four panels in heart forms with the point on top; buds stand there, on the lower part of the shaf. Cherubim appliques are in the panels. A baluster forms the upper par...
EditorialPyx, mid-16th century, Spanish, Toledo, Silver gilt, Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Gaspar Gallo (active ca. 1561?86), This pyx, used to hold the wafer of the Eucharist, is inscribed in Latin: 'This is the body of our Lord Jesus Christ.' ...
EditorialSix-Sided Pyx, 3rd century, Late Roman, Champlev? enamel, bronze, inlaid with millefiore enamel, Overall: 2 7/16 x 2 1/4 x 2 1/16 in. (6.2 x 5.7 x 5.3 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Small six-sided boxes such as this one, with millefiore enamel, have been fou...
EditorialPyx, late 15th?early 16th century, Spanish, Silver with silver-gilt interior, Overall: 4 3/16 x 3 7/16 in. (10.6 x 8.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Pyxes (from the Greek for 'boxwood vessel') are receptacles made to hold the consecrated bread, or Host, in re...
Editorial" Turkish" Monstrance, 1708, celebrates the victory of Don Juan d'Austria over a Turkish fleet near Lepanto in 1571. Detail: crow's nest of the Admiral's ship with Don Juan d'Austria. Silver pyx.
Editorial" Turkish" Monstrance, 1708, celebrates the victory of Don Juan d'Austria over a Turkish fleet near Lepanto in 1571. Detail: crow's nest of the Admiral's ship with Don Juan d'Austria. Silver pyx.
EditorialSix-Sided Pyx, 3rd century, Late Roman, Champlev? enamel, bronze, inlaid with millefiore enamel, Overall: 2 7/16 x 2 1/4 x 2 1/16 in. (6.2 x 5.7 x 5.3 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Small six-sided boxes such as this one, with millefiore enamel, have been fou...
EditorialPyx, ca. 1225?50, Made in Limoges, France, French, Copper: engraved and gilt; champlev? enamel: blue-black; dark, medium and light blue; turquoise, green, yellow, red, and white, Overall: 3 3/4 x 2 9/16 in. (9.5 x 6.5 cm), Enamels-Champlev?.
EditorialPyx, ca. 1250, Made in Limoges, France, French, Copper: engraved, gilt; champlev? enamel, Overall: 4 1/4 x 2 11/16 in. (10.8 x 6.8 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, The white discs inscribed with Christograms, ihs (Jesus), suggest a common form of the host (comm...
EditorialPyx, 13th century, Made in Burgos, Spain, Spanish, Champlev? enamel, copper-gilt, Overall: 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (10.5 x 8 x 6.6 cm), Enamels-Champlev?.
EditorialPyx, late 15th?early 16th century, Spanish, Silver with silver-gilt interior, Overall: 4 3/16 x 3 7/16 in. (10.6 x 8.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Pyxes (from the Greek for 'boxwood vessel') are receptacles made to hold the consecrated bread, or Host, in re...
EditorialPyx, 13th century, Made in Limoges, France, French, Champlev? enamel, copper-gilt, Overall: 4 5/8 x 3 3/8 x 2 11/16 in. (11.7 x 8.5 x 6.9 cm), Enamels-Champlev?.
EditorialPyx, 13th century, Made in Limoges, France, French, Champlev? enamel, copper-gilt, glass paste cabochons, Overall: 3 11/16 x 3 3/16 x 2 3/4 in. (9.4 x 8.1 x 7 cm), Enamels-Champlev?.
EditorialPyx, mid-16th century, Spanish, Toledo, Silver gilt, Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm), Metalwork-Silver, Gaspar Gallo (active ca. 1561?86), This pyx, used to hold the wafer of the Eucharist, is inscribed in Latin: 'This is the body of our Lord Jesus Christ.' ...
EditorialSix-Sided Pyx, 3rd century, Late Roman, Champlev? enamel, bronze, inlaid with millefiore enamel, Overall: 2 7/16 x 2 1/4 x 2 1/16 in. (6.2 x 5.7 x 5.3 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, Small six-sided boxes such as this one, with millefiore enamel, have been fou...
EditorialSilver bowl, Carolingian, 9th century. Ecclesiastical bowl of gilded solver and niello with a knobbed lid, decorated in relief with rosettes of acanthus leaves, some enclosing crosses and vine tendrils inhabited by birds. The birds are a Christian symb...
Editorial" Turkish" Monstrance, 1708, celebrates the victory of Don Juan d'Austria over a Turkish fleet near Lepanto in 1571. Detail: crow's nest of the Admiral's ship with Don Juan d'Austria. Silver pyx.