Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 142
ri.AiE X CIBoKITAr, IX THE V. AM) A. MUSEIM PYXES, CIBORIA 107 thus suspended was in the form of a dove, placed on a plate,to which the three suspending chains were attached, theopening of access being between the wings on the back. Oneof these doves may be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum ; … Fig. 26.—Pyx, Sens Cathedral but they were never so numerous as the smaller pyxcs, andare not so frequently to be seen in collections. The ciboria differed from these two kinds of boxes in thatthey were made to stand on the altar, and were thereforeprovided with a foot, and the earlier ones were…
