Pyxis with Palmettes (missing lid) | Yale University Art Gallery

1st century A.D.

Medium: Mold-blown glass, dark blue
Dimensions: 5.4 × 5.73 cm (2 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.6.57
Culture: Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, Syrian or Sidonian
Period: Roman
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Said to have been found near Homs, Syria; Khayat, 1914.
Described in 12-3-1914 Khayat receipt.

Bibliography

Christie's London, London, Ancient Glass from the Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, sale cat. (July 6, 2016), 44–45, ill.

Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1980), 48, no. 125, ill.

Gustavus A. Eisen, Glass: Its Origin, History, Chronology, Technic and Classification to the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols. (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927), vol. 1, p. 273, pl. 60a.

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Object/Work type

pyxides

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