This pyxis, which has concave sides, a flange over the base, and a flat lid with a handle in the shape of a pomegranate, is attributed to the Euaion Painter, who was a follower of Douris. Douris’s name is known because he signed his vases. However, the painter of this vase is unknown, so he is now called after an inscription on another vase that names one Euaion as a handsome boy.
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John D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1963), p. 798, no. 147.
Sally R. Roberts, The Attic Pyxis (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 1978), 130 f. 170 and pl. 77, no. 3.
Warren G. Moon, and Louise Berge, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), no. 112, pp. 200-201, 798, 147.
J.R. Guy, The Late Manner and Early Classical Followers of Douris (Oxford DPhil thesis; 1982), p. 100.
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Volume III (Zurich; Munich: Artemis Verlag, 1986), p. 137, no. 46.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 22.
Art Institute of Chicago, Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections, December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980, cat. no. 112.
Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum: This is Not a Greek Vase, January 1, 1984-January 29, 1986, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, March 1, 1987-August 31, 1987, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection (Part 2), Gallery 120A, January 13, 1989-February 21, 1990, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012-present.
Jean P. Lambros (1843-1909), Athens, Greece; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Charles L. Hutchinson.
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