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accession number: 1951.114
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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)
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creation date: 500s
creation date earliest: 500
creation date latest: 599
current location: 105 Byzantine
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Byzantium
technique: ivory
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Byzantine
type: Ivory
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measurements: Diameter: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Overall: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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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).
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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
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