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The ‘Temple Pyx’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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I have the permission of Captain Pitt-Rivers and Mr. Trelawney Dayrell-Reed to describe anew the ‘Temple Pyx’ that is in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham, Dorset. It has been published in line-drawings, and its existence is well known, but photographs (pl. ix) of such an interesting piece of metalwork have been wanted for some time.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1936

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page 52 note 1 vol. 103, p. 305.

page 52 note 2 The gilding is markedly bright, and it has been suggested to me that the mount was re-gilded after its discovery.

page 52 note 3 Wright, T. and Fairholt, F. W., Miscellanea Graphica, London, 1857, p. 20Google Scholar. This is also the authority for its having been owned by Crofton Croker; it may have been part of lot 24 of the Crofton Croker Sale (Puttick and Simpson, 21 December 1854).

page 52 note 4 Christie's, 10th July 1888, lot 698.

page 52 note 5 London, 1895, p. 49.

page 52 note 6 Ed. H. W. C. Davis, Oxford, 1924, figs. 191, 198.

page 52 note 7 Mann, J. G., Catalogue of Sculpture, 1931, S. 151, p. 55, and pl. 38Google Scholar.

page 53 note 1 Viollet-le-Duc, M., Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français, V (Paris, 1874), 80Google Scholar, note 2 (cf. fig. 8, p. 78). Mr. Mann tells me that since he wrote the catalogue quoted above he has found an earlier reference to this piece, accompanied by a figure, in Demmin, A., Die Kriegswaffen, Leipzig, 1869, 2Google Scholar. Lieferung, p. 182.

page 53 note 2 Romanische Leuchter und Gefässe, Berlin, 1935Google Scholar, cf. figs. 193 a–b, 253.

page 54 note 1 Goldschmidt, A., Die Bronzetüren von Novgorod u. Gresen, 1932, pl. 48Google Scholar.

page 54 note 2 Wiprecht died in 1124, but his effigy is later, probably early thirteenth century. See Dehio, G., Handbuch der deutschen Kumtdenkmäler, i, p. 244Google Scholar.

page 54 note 3 Goldschmidt, A., Elfenbeinskulpturen, iii, 53 (pl. xvi, 53 d)Google Scholar.

page 54 note 4 Goldschmidt, iii, 60 (Tf. xxa).

page 54 note 5 Cf. pl. VII a—b of Goldschmidt's Bronzetüren von Novgorod.

page 54 note 6 Goldschmidt, iii, 3 Tf. 11.