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CIRCA 400 B.C.
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE CYLINDRICAL PYXIS LID
CIRCA 400 B.C.
The exterior wall decorated with a central draped young woman being garlanded by two flanking naked erotes with large outspread wings, on the opposite side a draped young woman being presented with cistas offered by a winged eros and two women, one of whom holds a fillet, behind them another woman holding out a cista to a woman each holding fillets, a final scene with three draped women each holding a fillet and two with cistas, scrolling tendrils in the field, details in added white, the upper surface decorated with a frieze of seven lotus buds between seven palmettes each with central white spot, a circle of egg-and-spot frieze in the centre around a small hole to take a handle (now missing), the interior glazed black, repaired
6.7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) diam.; 2¾ in. (7 cm.) high
CIRCA 400 B.C.
The exterior wall decorated with a central draped young woman being garlanded by two flanking naked erotes with large outspread wings, on the opposite side a draped young woman being presented with cistas offered by a winged eros and two women, one of whom holds a fillet, behind them another woman holding out a cista to a woman each holding fillets, a final scene with three draped women each holding a fillet and two with cistas, scrolling tendrils in the field, details in added white, the upper surface decorated with a frieze of seven lotus buds between seven palmettes each with central white spot, a circle of egg-and-spot frieze in the centre around a small hole to take a handle (now missing), the interior glazed black, repaired
6.7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) diam.; 2¾ in. (7 cm.) high