Tall-Stemmed Pyxis

5th-4th century BCE (Classical) Overall: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) Citation Source image

This vessel likely held perfume and would have had a lid (now missing). Decoration on the exterior of the bowl, thought to be modern, shows a nude seated woman holding the reins of two hippocamps who are approaching a triton. Eros flies above the reins. The scene is identified...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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