Glass Pyxis in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Title: Glass pyxis (box with lid)

Medium; Technique: Glass; lathe-cut

Culture: Greek

Period: Hellenistic

Date: 3rd–1st century B.C.

Dimensions: H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) diameter 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Classification: Glass

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1959

Accession Number: 59.11.7


Description:

Although this vessel is without an exact parallel, its elegant shape and fine carving strongly indicate that it is of Hellenistic manufacture, even though the use of opaque white glass is better attested among cast vessels of the early Roman glass industry. It is probably modeled on similar marble pyxides.

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