id: 153588 accession number: 1987.127 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.127 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:00.497000 Box (Pyxis) in the Form of a Composite Capital, 305–30 BCE. Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE). Pale robin's-egg blue faience; box: 11.4 x 10.8 x 2 cm (4 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 13/16 in.); lid: 11.2 x 10.8 x 3.1 cm (4 7/16 x 4 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Shelby White; Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund; and, by exchange, The John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1987.127 title: Box (Pyxis) in the Form of a Composite Capital title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 305–30 BCE creation date earliest: -305 creation date latest: -30 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Gift of Mrs. Shelby White; Purchase from the J.H. Wade Fund; and, by exchange, The John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE) technique: pale robin's-egg blue faience department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - Ptolemaic Dynasty type: Vessels find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Box: 11.4 x 10.8 x 2 cm (4 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 13/16 in.); Lid: 11.2 x 10.8 x 3.1 cm (4 7/16 x 4 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Purchased from Charles Ede Ltd., London date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Kozloff, Arielle P. "A Capital Faience Cosmetic Box." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 3 (1990): 104-11. page number: Reproduced: back cover, p. 104; Mentioned: p. 104-11 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160111 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n26 Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 487; Mentioned: p. 488, cat. no. 385 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.127/1987.127_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.127/1987.127_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1987.127/1987.127_full.tif