About the Artwork
Attic Pyxis
9th/8th century BC
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Greek
Unknown
Clay
Height with lid: 7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm) x diameter: 19.4 cm. height without lid 11.4 cm
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the bequest of Dr. Lester W. Cameron
65.83.A
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Provenance
New York, André Emmerich Gallery (dealer) from whom purchased by the DIA in 1965.
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New York, André Emmerich Gallery, "Early Art in Greece", May 9 - June 11, 1965, p. 39, cat. 113, repr.
Madigan, B., Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts, (Monumenta Graeca et Romana), vol. 12, Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 14, cat. 22, fig. 23 (attributed to Group of Kerameikos Grave 20).
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Greek, Attic Pyxis, 9th/8th century BC, Clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the bequest of Dr. Lester W. Cameron, 65.83.A.
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