Harvard Art Museums > 1925.30.39.A-B: Pyxis with Cover Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Pyxis with Cover (Attributed to The Painter of London D 12) , 1925.30.39.A-B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292365. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
