Miniature Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)
300-270 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, with silhouette decoration
- Classification
- Vessel
- Dimensions
- a (jar): 7.1 × 8.5 × 8.5 cm (2.82 × 3 .375 × 3.375 in) b (lid): 2.1 × 4 × 4 cm (.83 × 1.61 × 1.60 in) c (saucer): 2.5 × 13.3 × 13.3 cm (1 × 5.25 × 5.25 in)
- Culture
- Cales
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Museum Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The shoulder of this vase is decorated with a black ivy wreath with complex runners. Black lines appear on the handles and between them, as well as on the short neck.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
