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Plates were first used in the Russian Orthodox communion service in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Like the facial images on other precious vessels, their forms were closely linked to the content of the liturgy. The plate was used to hold the communion host or consecrated wafer symbolising the body of Jesus Christ or the wafer of the Blessed Virgin.
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