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An Attic red-figure tripod pyxis

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An Attic red-figure tripod pyxis
Attributed to the Long Chin Group, circa 450-400 B.C.
The spool-shaped body decorated with a domestic scene of five women, all wearing patterned chitons and voluminous himations, arranged in two groups of paired women running towards each other with outstretched arms, one holding a skein of wool (?), a kalathos between each pair, and one of the women looking back over her shoulder to the fifth woman, shown seated and offering a skein of wool(?) in her outstretched hand to her companion, the circular lid with concentric bands of laurel, chevrons and tongues, and a now-missing knop handle, details in added white, 14cm high

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Provenance:
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (1766-1841) collection, Broomhall, Fife.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1968, lot 114.
Private collection, London and New York, acquired at the above sale.
Beazley Archive no. 216642.

Published:
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, p.1222 no. 2.
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 522.

The pyxis is a small round box which was used primarily by women for storing jewellery, ointments or cosmetics. Known since the Geometric period in a variety of stones, pottery pyxides are found in the white-ground, black-figure and red-figure techniques. Fittingly, such vessels are most commonly decorated with scenes of female activity, such as wool-working, the subject of the present lot. For another red-figure pyxis with a scene of women spinning wool and collecting it in a kalathos (a flaring basket used to store wool), see the Ashmolean Museum, acc. no. 1965.130.

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