Attic red-figure pottery pyxis depicting a domestic scene
On display
Details
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Title
Attic red-figure pottery pyxis depicting a domestic scene
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Associated place
Attica (place of creation) -
Date
420 BC - 400 BC
Classical Period (Greece) (480 - 323 BC) -
Material and technique
pottery, with painted decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.7 cm Body (height)
15 cm Body (diameter)
19.7 cm Lid (diameter)
2.1 cm Lid (height)
9.3 cm With Lid (height) -
No. of items
2
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Credit line
Purchased, 1900.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 16 | The Greek World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1896-1908.G.302
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Further reading
Gardner, P., ‘Vases Added to the Ashmolean Museum (Continued)’, 25, (1905), no. 551 on p. 79, Pyxis, no. 551 on p. 79; pl. IV
Beazley, John, D., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain 3, Oxford 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), nos 1-7 on pp 37-38, Pyxis, nos 1-7 on pl. 46; no. 2 on pl. 47
Beazley, John, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), no. 98 on p. 1328; p. 1315
Beazley, John, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), para.479
Vickers, Michael J., Greek Vases (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1978), 60
Burn, L., Glynn, R, Beazley Addenda. Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford University Press, 1982), no. 1328.98 on p. 182
Vickers, Michael, J., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), no. 45 on pp.59-60, Pyxis, no. 45 on pp 60-61
