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Pyxis

Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description This pyxis, or cylindrical box, is an exquisite example of Roman luxury glassware, used to hold cosmetics or precious jewelry. Cylindrical in shape with a knob on the cover; stratified: green, white, yellow, blue.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/08/1982	Treatment	surface cleaned
4/14/1982	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

3000 Years of Glass: Treasures from The Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1982.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be found near Jerusalem]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924

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Creator

Roman (Artist)

Period

late 1st century BC (Early Roman Imperial)

Medium

glass, gold leaf
(Glasswares)

Accession Number

47.76

Measurements

Overall H: 1 7/8 × 1 5/8 in. (4.8 × 4.2 cm); H of box: 1 5/16 × 1 9/16 in. (3.4 × 4 cm); H of lid: 1 1/8 × 1 5/8 in. (2.8 × 4.1 cm)

Geography

Israel, Jerusalem (Place of Discovery)

Location Within Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Roman Art