Pyxis with Maenads
Five female figures are rendered on the walls of this vessel, dancing ecstatically to flute (aulos) and drum (tympanon) music. They are maenads, female followers the wine-god Dionysus, performing a ritual as if in a reverie. The maenads are crowned with ivy leaves and berries,...
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Sotheby's, London, December 7, 1920, no. 257; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1920, by purchase [inv. no. P302]; Brummer Estate Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, June 8-9, 1949, part III, lot 12, fig. 1; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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