PYXIS & LID
Medium
In 2 parts, with incised lines, black, white & red, pottery
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1893
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
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Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian ware)
GREECE, Corinth
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Flat-bodied flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
String of beads
EGYPT
Clifton House
Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Richard HALL (draughtsman)
Unguent bottle
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY / GAUL
Vase
EGYPT
Plate (Attic geometric black-figure ware)
GREECE, Attica
Jar
EGYPT
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Beaker
SYRIA
Fragment of a brick
IRAQ, (Babylon)
Lekythos (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Funerary cone
EGYPT
Bowl
SYRIA / CYPRUS
View of the ancient Appian Way which passes alongside the wall already described in the previous views of the Ustrinum (crematorium)...
Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
Clay tablet
IRAQ
Fragment of a door jamb
EGYPT
Amphoriskos
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Lamp
(PALESTINE)
Jar
JORDAN, Pella, tomb 62
Pataikos amulet
EGYPT
Jug (red polished I ware)
CYPRUS, Vounous
Aryballos
ITALY, Etruria
Hydria (South Italian/Apulian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Apulia
Jar
IRAQ
Dropping a Han Dynasty urn
AI Weiwei
Kings and queens
John BRACK
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Amulet of a frog - Hekat
EGYPT