Pyx

Description 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.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/29/1961	Treatment	repaired
6/24/1999	Treatment	cleaned; coated; loss compensation; other

Exhibitions

• The Arts of Man. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. 1962.

Provenance 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, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters