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        "tombstone": "Pyx, c.1300. Austria, probably Salzburg, 14th century. Silver and gilt silver; diameter: 4.8 x 7.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation, 1970.125.a",
        "current_location": "109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture",
        "title": "Pyx",
        "creation_date": "c.1300",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1295,
        "creation_date_latest": 1305,
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        "culture": [
            "Austria, probably Salzburg, 14th century"
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        "technique": "silver and gilt silver",
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        "department": "Medieval Art",
        "collection": "MED - Gothic",
        "type": "Metalwork",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 4.8 x 7.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 1/16 in.)",
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 444728,
                    "title": "Eucharistic Vessels",
                    "description": "<i>Eucharistic Vessels</i>. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (March 14-April 26, 1975).",
                    "opening_date": "1975-03-14T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 444196,
                    "title": "Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe, 1270 - 1330",
                    "description": "<i>Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe, 1270 - 1330</i>. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (February 2-27, 1977).",
                    "opening_date": "1977-02-02T05:00:00"
                }
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Franz Trau, Vienna; (Blumka Gallery, Inc.).",
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        "description": "A pyx is a container designed to hold the consecrated Eucharist wafers between masses. It was probably used by the clergy to administer communion to the sick and dying; its small size made it easily portable. The decoration relates to similar liturgical objects made in the ecclesiastical and artistic center of Salzburg for the cathedral treasury of that city.",
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            ],
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.125.a",
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        "creditline": "Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation",
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        "accession_date": "1970-12-18T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1295,
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        "date_text": "c.1300",
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        "cover_accession_number": "1970.125",
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:26:49.023000"
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