A Greek Lidded Pyxis - Sunrays

Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd century BCE. A breathtaking redware lidded and footed pyxis of a sizeable scale, the lid adorned with a beautiful molded female face presenting sensitively modeled feature

Greece, Middle Corinthian, ca. 600 to 575 BCE. A beautifully decorated vessel from Corinth, Greece, commonly called a pyxis (a lidded container for cosmetics, ointments or trinkets; plural pyxides; ho

Ancient Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A lidded pyxis presenting an ever-so-slightly flatted, globular body, a pair of wonderful bird protomes at the rim - the necks adorned by incised

Magna Graecia, Apulia, ca. 4th century BCE. A ceramic pyxis, the lower section with a convex flange and a concave foot, the separate lid with a beautiful high relief bust of Aphrodite, the goddess of

Classical World, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 300 BCE. A fine example of a pyxis, a cylindrical, lidded box used mostly by women to hold cosmetics, jewelry, and other important items. Th

Classical World, Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Campania, Gnathian Teano Ware, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. A beautiful example of Teano-ware, most likely produced in Teano, Italy. This is a pyxis complete wit

Magna Graecia, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. An attractive blackware spool-shaped lidded pyxis, the lid decorated with a relief bust of a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, s

**First Time At Auction** Magna Graecia, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. An attractive blackware round lidded pyxis, the lid decorated with a raised handle with a target motif on it. The vessel body si

Greece, Corinth, ca. late 6th century BCE. A lidded polychrome pyxis, most likely used to hold cosmetics, ointments, or trinkets - its attractive form comprised of a globular body, corseted shoulder,

The lidded vessel of elegant form with delicate knob handle on lid. 3.25 x 3.5. Body repaired from several shards.Provenance: A private American collection. Purchased from a North Eastern antiquities

An Etruscan Bronze Lidded Pyxis with a Dionysiac Scene Circa 6th-4th Century B.C. Height 3 3/4 inches (9.53 cm). Property from The Brummer Collection from Drs. John and Pat Laszlo, Atlanta, Georgia Pr

Greece, Corinth, ca. late 6th century BCE. A two-part polychrome pyxis, most likely used to hold cosmetics, ointments, or trinkets - its attractive form comprised of a globular body, corseted shoulder

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A cast bronze pyxis depicting scenes of fantastical animals in low relief. Chasing around its lid are a rabbit and two pegasi; around the exterior ba

Classical World, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 300 BCE. A fine pottery pyxis - a lidded box used mostly by women to hold cosmetics, jewelry, and other important items - displaying a hemis

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Late Uruk to Jemdet Nasr Period, ca. 3100 to 2900 BCE. A splendid pyxis, skillfully hand-carved from marble to display a hemispherical body with a flared shoulder, a ro

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. Bronze tapered jar once holding oils. Machined base, tapered walls thin neck with small attached handles and rolled rim, original lid still in place with small

4th century BC. A ceramic blackware skyphos with bust of female to one side wearing a headcloth, to the other a male with short curly hair, both separated by a volute acroterion pattern to either side

Magna Graecia, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery pyxis used for holding personal trinkets and other petite items. The lower body has a broad rim atop a flared foot as well as a tal

4th century B.C. A black-ware ceramic skyphoid pyxis lid, circular in plan with slender tubular stem and lentoid-section handle, painted with the head of a lady of fashion, dressed in a patterned sakk

Roman Period-Coptic, 30 BC-6th century AD. A cylindrical wooden pyxis, the body with a rounded base and stepped shoulder to accept the lid, domed lid with apical discoid collars. 110 grams, 11cm (4 1/

Ancient Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A lidded pyxis presenting an ever-so-slightly flatted, globular body adorned by incised striations, a pair of wonderful bird protomes at the rim,

Thirteen Antique Pewter ArticlesEnglish and continental, 19th century, to include: a two-handled serving bowl; a porringer, four measures; a small tripod bowl, a lidded pyxis; five salt or pepper shak

A Greek red-figure lidded mug Apulia, circa 340-300 Century B.C. Enlivened with white and ochre slip, the body decorated with a female profile head wearing an ornate saccos, a palmette under the hand

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A beautiful lidded vessel of an attractive silhouette, with a bulbous body that corsets to a cylindrical neck, a cleverly designed handle compri