1925.30.39.A-B: Pyxis with Cover

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.30.39.A-B

People

Attributed to The Painter of London D 12, Greek

Title

Pyxis with Cover

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 450 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica

Period

Classical period, Early

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292365

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta; pale reddish clay painted inside and out

Technique

Red-figure

Dimensions

12.2 x 11.1 cm (4 13/16 x 4 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Joseph Clark Hoppin, Purchased in Athens, 1898, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Beazley Archive Database #213093

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.30.39.A-B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

On the body, a household scene: between two Doric columns a woman seated to right on a stool, clothed in an Ionic chiton and cloak. On the ground before her a wool-basket. Facing her a woman, similarly clad, holding out a mirror. Next another woman seated on a stool to right holding a small wool-basket in her right hand, then two more women with a cushioned stool between them, the right hand figure holding out a wool-basket in her right hand. All the figures are similarly clad in chiton and cloak. Outline of hair reserved in all cases. On the cover three bulls walking to left and two rocks in the field. Hasty drawing. Intact (cover broken).

Publication History

• Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
• George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 125.
• Gloria Ferrari Pinney, Figures of speech: men and maidens in ancient Greece, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2002), 47-49

Exhibition History

• Greek Art and Life: From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Private Lenders, Fogg Art Museum, 03/07/1950 - 04/15/1950
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/17/2017 - 01/07/2018

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