Pyxis

Museum number:
8-1849
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.103
Description:
Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tomb G, Poggio Buco, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Tomb G
Culture or time period:
Etruscan and Etrusco-Corinthian
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
1896
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Pyxes
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 2 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 3 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 4 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 5 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 6 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 7 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 8 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.Hearst Museum object 9 of 9 titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pyxis, accession number 8-1849, described as Etrusco-Corinthian pyxis. Description from Matteucig (1951): Pyxis; height: 8 cm; diameter: 11.2 cm. (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 4). Italo-Corinthian. Clay buff; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. Low neck; globular body on low solid foot; handles consisting of two small perforated knobs. On neck, a brown band; on shoulder, four groups of twelve tongues; the rest, narrow and broad, brown and violet bands. No cover. For a somewhat similar example, cf. Robinson, Toronto Vases, PL XV, 214; exact parallel from Poggio Buco in the Museo Archeologico, Florence.

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