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Apulian Red-figure Lid from a Pyxis or Lekanis
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Orange-buff fabric with semi-lustrous black slip. Radial stripes on flat handle knob. The decoration on the low, conical lid is divided into quadrants. Two of these are filled with large palmettes. The other two have identical depictions of the head of a woman wearing a tiara, necklace, earrings, and an elaborate hairstyle.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Walton Brooks McDaniel New Jersey (?-1943/46) gift; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University (1943/46-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012.
Note: Walton Brooks McDaniel gave a portion of his collection to the Department of the Classics in 1943 and the rest in 1946. The Collection is named for his late wife Alice Corinne McDaniel.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Apulian Red-figure Lid from a Pyxis or Lekanis
Description:
Orange-buff fabric with semi-lustrous black slip.
Radial stripes on flat handle knob.
The decoration on the low, conical lid is divided into quadrants.
Two of these are filled with large palmettes.
The other two have identical depictions of the head of a woman wearing a tiara, necklace, earrings, and an elaborate hairstyle.
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