Black-Glazed Pyxis or Plemochoe Artist: Unknown

ca. 500 B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

6 3/8 × 6 7/8 in. (16.2 × 17.5 cm)
Height without Lid: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Emily T. and Cornelius Vermeule

Accession Number

1998.80.2a-b

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Late Archaic

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Collection of Catherine Comstock Vermeule; Emily T. and Cornelius C. Vermeule III, acquired from the above, 1956; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1998.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 53-54, no. 41, pl. 100, fig. 40
  • "Acquisitions, 1998," in "Recent Projects and Issues in Conservation," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1999), 197
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

plemochoai, pyxides

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