Pyx, 12th century, (1843). Container for consecrated communion bread. This example was made of gilt copper with the ornaments relieved in blue and green Limoge enamel. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).
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