Detail View: The AMICA Library: Container for Personal Objects
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1905.343a-b
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AMICA Library Year:
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1999
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator:
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Greek (Corinthian) Ampersand Painter, fl. c. 580-570 B.C.
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Greek; Corinthian
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Greek (Corinthian)
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Creator Name:
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Ampersand Painter
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Mediterranean
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Greek; fl. c.580-570 B.C. Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Ampersand Painter
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Title:
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Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects)
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Title Type:
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preferred
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Title:
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Container for Personal Objects
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Title Type:
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alternate
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View:
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view with sphinx flanked by panthers
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Creation Date:
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Orientalizing Period/Archaic Period, 580/570 B.C.
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Creation Start Date:
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-585
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Creation End Date:
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-565
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Materials and Techniques:
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Earthenware, black-figure technique
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Classification Term:
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Vessel
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Subject Description:
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The figures on this late Corinthian pyxis were drawn in silhouette and painted black with anatomical details picked out by incision. Patches of red and white paint were also used to enliven forms. This upright handled pyxis is decorated with a frieze of 'panthers,' a sphinx, a swan, a doe, and a goat, and the background is filled with so called 'splinter' rosettes. The painter of this pyxis is known as the Ampersand Painter because of the lengthened and curving shape he frequently gave to the tail of a sphinx, as here, and its similarity to the ampersand, the symbol often printed for 'and.' This is his name vase.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Greece, Peloponnesus, Kórinthos department, Corinth
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Dimensions:
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H.: 14 cm (5-9/16 in.)W. at widest at belly: 15 cm (5-7/8 in.)Diam. at outside mouth: 6.9 cm (2-3/4 in.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1905.343a-b
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Purchase Fund
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Rights:
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.E24193.TIF
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