This pyxis (box) would have been used for storage. Apart from bands of decoration around the handles and the base, most of the vase has been left unpainted.

 

Literature: J. Falconer and T. Mannack, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain, Fascicule 19: Winchester College (Oxford, 2002), p. 14, plate 10.21-22; H.A. Payne, Necrocorinthia, a study of Corinthian art in the Archaic period (Oxford, 1931), p. 323, no. 1326, fig. 164; Winchester College Memorial Buildings: Department of Classical Art (Winchester, 1909), p. 14 (no. 19 probably with Gr42)

Provenance: From Corinth, at Winchester College by 1909

Location: Treasury, Gallery 3