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Pyxis with molded female head

2010-64 a-b

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Object Number

2010-64 a-b

Medium

Ceramic

Dates

early 6th century B.C.

Dimensions

h. 12.7 cm, diam. 10.8 cm (5 x 4 1/4 in.)

Culture

Greek, Boeotian

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund, and gift of Sol and Colleen Rabin, and gift of the Department of Art and Archaeology in honor of Professors William A. P. Childs, Hugo Meyer, and T. Leslie Shear, Jr.

Place Made

Boeotia

Type

ceramics, pyxides

Subject

women, heads, palmettes, running ornament, floral patterns, zigzags

Materials

slip, ceramic

Before 1931 with Franz Trau, Vienna, Austria (d. 1931); November 15, 1954, sold with rest of Trau collection, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne; from 1954 until an unknown date, with Athos Moretti, Bellinzona, Switzerland; from an unknown date until April 1991 with Stefano Donati, Lugano, Switzerland; from April 1991 to 1992 with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, NY; from 1992 - 2010 with Dr. Sol Rabin, Beverly Hills, CA; purchased by the Museum in 2010.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233261877

Antikensammlung, Nachlass Franz Trau, Wien: Ägyptische, etruskische, kyprische und römische Altertümer, Gläser, Terrakottafiguren, Vasen, Bronzen, dakischer Silberfund, ägyptische Totenmasken El Fayum, Marmorfiguren und Reliefs, Sarkophage, (Wien?: Galerie Fischer, 1954).

7051 1954

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31036181

Art of the ancient world, (London; New York: Royal-Athena Galleries, 1965-)., Vol. 7, pt. 1: no. 262

2112 1966

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23631219

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2010," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 70 (2011): p. 69-110., p. 86

2974 2011