Dinanderie: a history and description of mediaeval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, G. Allen & sons · leaf 143
. We give a sketch here of one preserved inthe treasury of Sens Cathedral (Fig. 26), decorated in cham-pleve enamel, which will sufficiently show the appearance ofthese simple objects. Another kind of box to contain the consecrated Host when 106 PYXES, CIBORIA 107 thus suspended was in the form of… … Fig. 26.—Pyx, Sens Cathedral but they were never so numerous as the smaller pyxes, 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…
