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XIX.—On a Carved Ivory Pyx in the British Museum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

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The pyx illustrated in Plate XXXIII., and acquired by the British Museum in the present year, was formerly in the possession of the Reverend Walter Sneyd, of Keele Hall, where it had been preserved for about half a century. It was exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester in 1857 and again at South Kensington in 1862, has been figured, though imperfectly, by Grarrucci and Rohault de Fleury, and cast for the series issued by the Arundel Society.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1903

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page 429 note b Storia dell' Arte Gristiana, vol. vi. plate 439, fig. 4. Garrucci erroneously describes the pyx as belonging to the cathedral church of Sens.

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page 430 note c A number of the pyxes still in existence ai-e figured by Rohault de Fleury and Garrucci in the volumes cited above.

page 431 note a Stuhlfauth, G., Die altchristliche Eilfenbeinplastik, 66. Stuhlfauth compares -with the Sneyd pyx four panels in a collection in Paris, Garrucci, plate 448,10-13. He states that the pyx originally came from Aachen.Google Scholar

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