id: 128101 accession number: 1951.114 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.114 updated: 2025-02-09 01:35:38.113000 Ivory Pyx (Box), 500s. Byzantium. Ivory; diameter: 12.7 cm (5 in.); overall: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.114 title: Ivory Pyx (Box) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 500s creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 599 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Byzantium technique: ivory department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Ivory find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Overall: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Art of the Late Antique opening date: 1968-12-17T05:00:00 Art of the Late Antique. The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (organizer) (December 17, 1968-February 16, 1969). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE the pyx was found in Lyons during the demolition of the Church of Saint-Étienne adjoining the Cathedral of Saint-Jean. Forgotten, hidden, it emerged as the choice object in a family collection in Lyons. According to W. M. Milliken, tradition says that to satisfy a family heritage it was eventually divided into three parts, roughly one third, which was in the collection of M. G. Chalandon (the piece bought in 1951 by the CMA), and the remaining two thirds which went into the Récamier collection, and then into the collection of Claudius Côte (purchased by the CMA in 1952). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. “A Byzantine Ivory of the Early Christian Period.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 10 (December 1951): 227–229. page number: Mentioned: p. 227-229; Reproduced: Cover url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141747 Milliken, William M. “The Completed Ivory Pyxis.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 4 (April 1952): 63–64. page number: Mentioned: p. 63-64; Reproduced: Cover url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141785 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 64 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n25 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 37 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n61 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 37 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n59 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 38 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n58 Kateusz, Ally. "Women at the Altar of Jesus's Tomb in the Anastasis." Metropolitan Museum Journal 59 (2024): 8-25. page number: Mentioned: p. 14, 15, 16; Reproduced: p. 14, fig. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.114/1951.114_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.114/1951.114_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.114/1951.114_full.tif