LGP Circular Pyxis
This vase is a pyxis: a flat circular box used by women to put away their makeups and jewelry. The lid is remarkable for its handle made with four plastic horses. The animals are modeled by hand and suggest a quadriga.
The choice of the horses is not trivial: it is a very old iconography suggesting the nobility and the wealth of the owner. So this box certainly belonged to a lady of the aristocracy.
This vase dates from the third phase of the geometric style, the Late Geometric period (760-700 BC). The rigorous organization of the decoration emphasizing its circular shape, and the disappearance of black varnished areas in favor of painted decorations, characterize and mark this pixys respect the vases of the Mean Geometric period (850-760 BC).
Hatched petals decorate the lid and the bottom of the vessel, emphasizing its circular shape. The main body is covered with a decorated frieze where the triglyphs alternate to the metopes decorated with deers, swastikas, rosettes, diamonds and checkered patterns.
Source @ collections.louvre.fr
Attic Pyxis
Made in Athens
Late Gemetrical Period
About 740 BC
From Boeotia [?]
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Inv. No. A567
LGP Circular Pyxis
This vase is a pyxis: a flat circular box used by women to put away their makeups and jewelry. The lid is remarkable for its handle made with four plastic horses. The animals are modeled by hand and suggest a quadriga.
The choice of the horses is not trivial: it is a very old iconography suggesting the nobility and the wealth of the owner. So this box certainly belonged to a lady of the aristocracy.
This vase dates from the third phase of the geometric style, the Late Geometric period (760-700 BC). The rigorous organization of the decoration emphasizing its circular shape, and the disappearance of black varnished areas in favor of painted decorations, characterize and mark this pixys respect the vases of the Mean Geometric period (850-760 BC).
Hatched petals decorate the lid and the bottom of the vessel, emphasizing its circular shape. The main body is covered with a decorated frieze where the triglyphs alternate to the metopes decorated with deers, swastikas, rosettes, diamonds and checkered patterns.
Source @ collections.louvre.fr
Attic Pyxis
Made in Athens
Late Gemetrical Period
About 740 BC
From Boeotia [?]
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Inv. No. A567