Object Title
Pyxis
Measurements
50 x 30.5 cm
Creation Date
mid 3rd Century BCE
Credit Line
Carlos Collection of Ancient Art
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/6894/pyxis?ctx=e11ea2e6853bef387b46f5945e4494a44476779a&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Ex coll. Elie Borowski (1913-2003), Basel, Switzerland, from at least 1984. Purchased by MCCM from Christie's New York, Sale 9448, June 12, 2000, lot 126.
Exhibition Information
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, December 18, 1984 - June 30, 1985
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, 2000 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - September 15, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, March 23, 2015 - Present
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, 2000 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - September 15, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, March 23, 2015 - Present
Publication Information
Neda Leipen, et al., Glimpses of Excellence: A Selection of Greek Vases and Bronzes from the Elie Borowski Collection (Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1984), 25-26, number 19.
Christie's New York, Ancient Greek Vases (June 12, 2000), lot 126.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2000.
Philipp Baas, "Zu den Vasenbildern aus Centuripe," Jahreshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Institutes in Wien 85 (2016): 91, figures 3-5.
Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, 4th Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 185, Figure 21.
Christie's New York, Ancient Greek Vases (June 12, 2000), lot 126.
MCCM Newsletter, September - November 2000.
Philipp Baas, "Zu den Vasenbildern aus Centuripe," Jahreshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Institutes in Wien 85 (2016): 91, figures 3-5.
Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, 4th Edition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 185, Figure 21.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased by museum in 2000.