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Pyxis with cover
Greek
Early Corinthian Period
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Corinthia, Corinth; Findspot: Vulci
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); diameter: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number98.904a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 442.
DescriptionCheese-box shape. Clay yellow; top and sides of cover have short wavy brown lines between bands of red. Broken and repaired; the cover considerably restored.
ProvenanceBy 1889: Prince Torlonia Collection (excavated at Vulci, 1889: Gsell, Fouilles de Vulci, tomb no. XLIX); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: [one of the] Contents incomplete of an early VIth Cent tomb at Vulci [containing MFA vases 98.901-909, 912-914, 916, 920]); 1898: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 69,618.13 (this figure is the total price for MFA 98.641-98.940)