Painting from a small toilet-box or pyxis, showing painted vases used to decorate a lady's room. On the left is a gilt pyxis with a tall lid, and an aenochoe on a low table; on the right two tall vases (lebes) on a plinth. All except the pyxis are decorated with painted figures, and contain flowers.
Source: 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 5, p. 720
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