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Tall-Stemmed Pyxis
(Ancient Greece )
This vessel likely held perfume and would have had a lid (now missing). Decoration on the exterior of the bowl, thought to be modern, shows a nude seated woman holding the reins of two hippocamps who are approaching a triton. Eros flies above the reins. The scene is identified as Amphitrite and Poseidon.
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
41.2