Pyx, ca. 1250

  • Limoges, French

Champlevé enamel on gilt copper, glass

  • Overall: 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (8.9 × 8.9 × 6.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund with matching funds from the David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation

1985.29

On View

  • European: Medieval C263

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

1855, Ralph Bernal

1856, Lord Londesborough

1886, Duke of Norfolk (Arundel Castle, Sussex, England)

Henry Bernard (Paris, France)

(Edward R. Lubin, New York, New York, USA)

1985-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Limoges, Pyx, ca. 1250, champlevé enamel on gilt copper, glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund with matching funds from the David L. Klein, Jr. Memorial Foundation, 1985.29.