Athenian black figure lekythos
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AR3035
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Athenian black-figure Lekythos
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| Material: |
Red clay with black slip and dark red and white painting So-called black figure vase |
| Date: |
550 - 475 B.C.
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| Description: |
Lekythos with echinus foot and elegant high body with high shoulder which is clearly separated from the high neck by a small ridge. The scene on body shows a dancing maenad between two satyrs. The hair and tails of the satyrs are partially drawn with dark red paint, face, arms and legs of the maenad are drawn with white paint. Foot, lower part of the body and spout are black glazed, on the shoulder a band of rays and an overlapping band of oval shields and lance-shaped leafs. |
| Size: |
Height 179 mm, diameter 85 mm
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| Condition: |
Overall in very good condition, very nicely preserved original decoration. Restoration at neck (broken and professionally re-attached), parts of foot broken and missing, minor chips on lip.
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| References: |
See the lekythos on exhibition in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts, inventory number 06.1021.83, published in: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 495.154 Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich 2016): 126, FIG.12 |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2020 from the German private collection Dr. R. Schmidt. Acquired in the early 1980s from a Cologne (Germany) art gallery by his father, Dr. D. Schmidt.
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| Authenticity: |
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