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Pyxis with Three Horses

Pyxis with Three Horses

Public Domain

Artist
CultureGreek (Attic)
Titles
  • Pyxis with Three Horses
Date750–700 BC
MediumTerracotta with slip
Dimensionsheight × diameter: 8 11/16 × 12 3/4 inches (22.0 × 32.4 cm.)
 .A, body: height × diameter: 3 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (8.9 × 32.4 cm.)
 .B, lid: height × diameter: 5 × 10 1/2 inches (12.7 × 26.7 cm.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan
Object number37.17.A,.B
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
200 Jamail Atrium
On view

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
Provenance[Theodore Zoumpoulakis, Athens]; purchased by Miss Annette Finnigan (1873–1940), Houston, by 1937; given to MFAH, 1937.
Exhibition History"Ten Centuries that Shaped the West," The Rice Institute for the Arts, Houston, Tex., October 15, 1970–January 3, 1971; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Tex., February 3–April 1, 1971; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 16–July 11, 1971.

"From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer," Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo, October 9–December 5, 1993; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkley, Calif., January 19–March 20, 1994; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., April 23–June 19, 1994 (LN: 93.12).
Published References Bohen, Barbara. "The Attic Geometric Pyxis." PhD diss., New York University, 1979. Fox, Robin Lane and Susanne Held. Reisende Helden: Die Anfange der griechischen Kultur im Homerischen Zeitalter. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2011. Fig. 7. Hoffman, Herbert. Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections. Houston: Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1971. Pages 308-310, figures 149a and 149b. Langdon, Susan. From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. University of Missouri, 1993. Pages 210-211, figure 82.

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