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A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 287

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xes in ivory in Wall-Cases 35-36). … Fig. 175.—Quadrant with badge of Richard II. Ivory pyxes of this kind have been preserved in several Westernchurches, and were imitated, though in the style of contemporaryart, as late as the fourteenth century. But the most usual formof mediaeval pyx is a small cylindrical box with a conical…

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