Smith, Cecil Harcourt; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 3): Vases of the finest period (London, 1896)

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give into her f. an alabastron ; his figure is entirely restored. Behind him a small
conical mound (?) with flowers ; between the two women, an alabastron. All the
women wear a long girt chiton, decorated on the breast, a sphendone, earrings,
necklace, and bracelets.

E 779. PYXIS. Ht. 2l in. (wants the lid). Athens, 1813. Burgon Coll. Drawing careless,

but of a good period. Brown is used for the folds of chitons. Eye in profile.

Eros and two women. Eros, a full-grown youth with wings raised, steps
forward to r. in a stooping attitude, holding forward in both hands extended a
square box towards a woman who flees towards a pair of folding doors, looking
back and raising her r. arm in surprise. On the 1. of Eros a second woman
flees to 1., extending her r. arm and looking back, towards the same doors. Each
woman wears a long sleeved chiton and mantle, and has her hair knotted behind.
The doors are studded with nails in three cross-bands, and have dots represent-
ing knocker and latch ; they occupy a large portion of the design.

E 780. PYXIS. Ht. 5 i in. Diam. 5 J-in. Drawing late and careless. Around the centre of the

lid, a myrtle-wreath with alternate leaves and berries, the berries and stems coloured purple,
between a band of rays and a band of herring-bone pattern. On the projecting moulding of the
body, a band of rays ; above this, the design.

Toilet-scene. An interior is indicated by a large door, divided into four
panels, each of which has in the centre a handle (?) in the shape of an Q ; the
styles are ornamented with studs. Beside this stand two pairs of women
confronted, with long hair and long chitons ; each holds a taenia. In the field
hang two wreaths or sashes.

E 781. • PYXIS. Ht. 7 in. Diam. 6 in. Athens. Castcllani, 1873. Late careless style. Brown
edge of hair. The lid lias a central handle, around which, between two concentric circles of egg
pattern, is a frieze of animals ; a lion and boar springing towards each other, repeated ; behind
one boar, a conical reck. On the projecting rim of the body is a band of egg pattern ; above
this, a frieze.

Erotes and women. The design falls into three groups : (i) Eros seated
to r. on a square base, with 1. foot raised, holding on his 1. knee with both hands
a square box ; in front of him a woman with knotted hair, long Ionic chiton
and mantle, runs quickly away to r., looking back, and raising the drapery from
her shoulder with her r. hand; in her 1. she holds a fruit. On r. a calathos,
badly drawn ; then (ii) Eros with r. resting on his thigh, places his 1. on the
shoulder of a youth in similar attitude, who with mantle on 1. arm leans on a
staff, conversing with a woman dressed as the last, who raises the drapery
from her shoulder with her 1. hand, (iii) Eros, holding mantle rolled up in r.,
square box on 1., flics to r. after a woman whose dress and action arc like those
in (i), except that her mantle hides her 1. arm.

E 782. PYXIS. Ht. ij in. Diam. 4 in. Blacas Coll. Drawing in delicate miniature style.

Gilding is used for the details of the wings and the disk, for bracelets, head-bands, and
for the centres of the egg pattern, the palmettes and the spirals, and the berries of the wreath.