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LOT 0118
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
ROMAN TURQUOISE GLASS PYXIS
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/8 in. (42 grams, 85 mm high).
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/8 in. (42 grams, 85 mm high).
With a broadly barrel-shaped body, everted foot and shoulder, domed inverted neck; areas of iridescence; repaired.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired early 1990s.
Ex private American collection; thence by descent.
Private collection since 1998.
LITERATURE:
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 2000.5a, b, for a bone pyxis of similar form, dated 1st century A.D; see accession numbers 17.194.238a, b and 25.78.118a, b, for examples of a different form made from glass.
FOOTNOTES:
Originally used principally by women to hold cosmetics, jewellery or even poisonous substances, some pyxides have even been identified as ink pots. Most surviving examples are green terracotta examples.
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