The word I have translated 'pyxes' is 'ciborii,' vessels for holding the Eucharist. ❋ Benvenuto Cellini (1535)
Peter F. Anson's book, Churches: Their Plan and Furnishing shows a number of examples of some different forms of hanging pyxes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Statuettes in the round were rare in early Christian times: one of the Good Shepherd in the Basilewski collection is almost unique, but pyxes in cylindrical form were made, the sculpture on them being in relief. ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)
Rome, and the numerous preserved book-covers, diptychs, and pyxes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Thus it becomes difficult to decide in the case of certain circular ivory pyxes, of which one in the Berlin Museum is the best known and the earliest in date, whether they were or were not used as reliquaries. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Christian antiquity has transmitted to us pyxes or boxes intended to hold the Eucharist, but as these should be considered in connection with sacred vessels, it is not necessary here to dwell upon them but simply upon the boxes in which the altar-breads are kept prior to consecration and which are generally very plain. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Christians found for ivory was the making of cylindrical pyxes from a cross section of the elephant tusk; upon the covers, they carved figures of Our Lord, St. Peter, and St. Paul, and on the side the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
There were, however, present at the competition certain Milanese gentlemen of the first consequence, who said: Most blessed Father, your Holiness is sending this magnificent present into France; please to reflect that the French are people of no culture, and will not understand the excellence of Benvenutos work; pyxes like this one of Tobbias will suit their taste well, and these too can be finished quicker. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
The word I have translated pyxes is ciborii, vessels for holding the Eucharist. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
There were, however, present at the competition certain Milanese gentlemen of the first consequence, who said: Most blessed Father, your Holiness is sending this magnificent present into France; please to reflect that the French are people of no culture, and will not understand the excellence of Benvenutos work; pyxes like this one of Tobbias will suit their taste well, and these too can be finished quicker. ❋ Unknown (1909)
"Queer!" said the detective, as he stood staring meditatively at patens and chalices, reliquaries and pyxes. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Sometimes monstrances were made in the shape of a tower, or a covered chalice; sometimes in the form of images carrying silver pyxes, elaborately ornamented with many jewels. ❋ Unknown (1892)
In country churches in Oxfordshire there were silver chalices and patens, pyxes, censers, candlesticks, chrismatories, crosses, sanctus bells, and other articles of plate. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Madonnas, pyxes, "and all sorts," as Mr. Browning says. ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)
Middle Ages gave to the pyxes; instead of making it the shrine where the ❋ Unknown (1877)
Crosses, pyxes, precious monstrances, sacred vestments, similar to suns, were piled up in the vestry cupboards. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)
Beautiful objects lay about there -- reliquaries, pyxes, silver images for the pope's chapel at Rome, strange fancy-work of the middle age, keeping odd company with fragments of antiquity, then but lately discovered. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
[Lemme] [score] some pyx of your [boobs]. ❋ Mike Kickass (2006)
“Hey, you know that girl Pyx? yeah, she’s kinda [mysterious] but I [talked] to her and now we are [best friends]” ❋ Minoushka (2018)
