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Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)
Euaion Painter · 450-440 BCE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jean P. Lambros (1843-1909), Athens, Greece; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Charles L. Hutchinson.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections, December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980, cat. no. 112.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum: This is Not a Greek Vase, January 1, 1984-January 29, 1986, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, March 1, 1987-August 31, 1987, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection (Part 2), Gallery 120A, January 13, 1989-February 21, 1990, no cat.
- 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-present.
Literature
Published references
- John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 798, no. 147.
- Sally R. Roberts, The Attic Pyxis (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 1978), 130 f. 170 and pl. 77, no. 3.
- Warren G. Moon, and Louise Berge, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), no. 112, pp. 200-201, 798, 147.
- J.R. Guy, The Late Manner and Early Classical Followers of Douris (Oxford DPhil thesis; 1982), p. 100.
- Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Volume III (Zurich; Munich: Artemis Verlag, 1986), p. 137, no. 46.
- 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. 22.
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