Pyxis (Hostiendose)

Late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD. A mosaic glass pyxis in swirls of green, amber, blue and white glass, squat jar with shallow lid and knop handle. See Whitehouse, D. Roman Glass in the Cornin

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. mid 6th century BCE. A very special ceramic pyxis, its container upraised and supported by three slab-built legs with each face presenting a figural scene created via the b

Römisch, 1.Jh. v. Chr.–1.Jh. n. Chr. Bronze. Gefäss mit zierlichem Fuss und Ösen in Form menschlicher Gesichter. Knopfdeckel mit Kette am Henkel fixiert. Mit dazugehörigem Schöp

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Greece, Corinth, ca. late 6th century BCE. A lidded polychrome pyxis, most likely used to hold cosmetics, ointments, or trinkets - its attractive form comprised of a globular body, corseted shoulder,

An Etruscan Bronze Lidded Pyxis with a Dionysiac Scene Circa 6th-4th Century B.C. Height 3 3/4 inches (9.53 cm). Property from The Brummer Collection from Drs. John and Pat Laszlo, Atlanta, Georgia Pr

Ca. 3rd Millennium BC A Bactrian chlorite pyxis with a circular base and impressively thin walls that cave gently inwards, flanked with a repeated pattern of petite squares, creating a textured surfac

ROTFIGURIGES PYXIS MIT DECKEL Attisch Ohne Sockel / without base Keramik. H 7,5 cm (inkl. Deckel). Ø 16 cm. Provenienz: - William Randolph Hearst 1863-1951), Beverly Hills. - Herbert A. Cahn (1915-20

Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd century BCE. A breathtaking redware lidded and footed pyxis of a sizeable scale, the lid adorned with a beautiful molded female face presenting sensitively modeled feature

Greece, Middle Corinthian, ca. 600 to 575 BCE. A beautifully decorated vessel from Corinth, Greece, commonly called a pyxis (a lidded container for cosmetics, ointments or trinkets; plural pyxides; ho

Greek Spherical Pyxis with Ladies of Fashion, Apulia, 320-300 B.C. Of spherical form with ring foot and button handle, the lid with palmettes between two profile heads of ladies of fashion. Side A wit

Greece, Corinth, ca. late 6th century BCE. A two-part polychrome pyxis, most likely used to hold cosmetics, ointments, or trinkets - its attractive form comprised of a globular body, corseted shoulder

Ancient Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A lidded pyxis presenting an ever-so-slightly flatted, globular body adorned by incised striations, a pair of wonderful bird protomes at the rim,

Ancient Corinthian Large Pottery BiChrome Pyxis, Late Corinthian II, 550 - 500 century BC. A sizeable buff pottery rounded vessel with two arched handles on shoulder, constricted rim (once lidded) and

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A cast bronze pyxis depicting scenes of fantastical animals in low relief. Chasing around its lid are a rabbit and two pegasi; around the exterior ba

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian or Assyrian, ca. 8th to 3rd century BCE. A remarkable stone pyxis presenting a flat base and impressively thin walls that rise and curve inward to a narrow rim above a

1st-2nd century A.D. A copper-alloy pyxis of architectural form, a column to each corner, and a bull's head to two of the sides; one side with a male head and the opposite side with a female head; the

Roman Empire, ca. 3rd to 4th century. Lovely bronze hanging pyxis in long "sack" shape with short neck and wide rim, stopper still present and supported by original bronze chain. On each side of the p

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulia, Canosan, ca. 3rd century BCE. A polychrome pyxis of a striking form, the body a cylindrical shape gently flaring toward the bottom, corseting to a protruding band,

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulia, Canosan, ca. 3rd c BCE. A polychrome pyxis of a striking form, the body a cylindrical shape gently flaring toward the bottom, corseting to a protruding band, and re

Greece, Corinth, ca. 6th century BCE. Lovely rounded pottery pyxis sitting on short foot with even shorter rim which is capped by a round lid with spooled knob handle. Body is decorated with alternati

Magna Grecia Blackware Pyxis, Hellenistic Period 4th-3rd Century B.C. Exceptional blackware pyxis with original lid. Lid is decorated with straight lines starting at the collar out which contrast nice

Ancient Near East, Canaan, the Levant, ca. 1st millennium BCE. A skillfully carved alabaster pyxis displaying a gently rounded base, a cylindrical body, a conical neck, and a circular, lipped rim. Boa

Magna Graecia, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. An attractive blackware spool-shaped lidded pyxis, the lid decorated with a relief bust of a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, s