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Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)
Ancient Greek · 730-720 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- With Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, Switzerland, April 29, 1961, lot 80. Bruce McAlpine, London, by 1976 [receipt in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute Junior Museum, This is not a Greek Vase Show, November 1, 1984 - January 29, 1986.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Grave Goods from Ancient Cultures, Gallery 141, November 9, 1991-May 17, 1992.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - January 24, 2019.
Literature
Published references
- Ars Antiqua AG, Lucerne, Auktion 3 am 29, sale cat. (Ars Antiqua AG, Lucerne, April 1961), p. 34 no. 80, pl. 30/31.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1976-76 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), p. 33 (ill.).
- B. Bohen, Kerameikos Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen XII: Die Geometrischen Pyxiden (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1988), p. 62 IX no. 4.
- Louise Berge, "Recent Acquisitions in the Classical Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Daidalikow: Studies in Memory of Raymond V. Schoder, S.J. (Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1988), p. 46.
- John Griffiths Pedley, “Greek Art” in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), p. 30 (ill.), no. 19.
- Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 33.
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