A Pyxis with animal frieze

Estimated Value:

3.000 € - 5.000 €

Result:

3.108 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Corinthian, ca. 600 - 575 BC
H. 7,3 cm
Low, slightly tapered pyx with two short, horizontally attached tab handles. The body is decorated all around with an animal frieze in the black-figure style, the upper rim with a band of S-shaped dot motifs; the foot with a frieze of tongues and rays. The iconography and ornamentation are typical of Corinthian artefacts from around 600 BC, when animal friezes and rosettes dominated the pictorial field.
Important private collection Rhineland, collected before 1969, by descent within the family to the present owner
Literature on the type: H. Payne, Necrocorinthia (Oxford, 1931); D. A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period (Berkeley, 1988)

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