Black figure Athenian Lekythos - Chariot with horses
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Object number
AR2230
| Object: |
Lekythos (oil vessel)
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| Material: |
So-called black figure pottery Red clay with black slip and white painting (widely faded) |
| Date: |
Last quarter 6th - first quarter 5th century B.C. Athenian |
| Description: |
Large chimney-shaped vessel with foot in two degrees. Gently curved shoulder, high thin cylindrical neck, lentil-shaped lip, flat handle. Body decorated with chariot scene: One figure in chariot pulled by three horses, another one in front of it, a third figure behind the horses and facing the first two. Another female figure is seated on a folding stool at the head. Line and meander band above the figures, two bands of rays and tongues on the shoulder. Manner of the Haimon painter. The human figures possibly represent amazons. |
| Size: |
Height 180 mm, diameter 57 mm
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| Condition: |
Excellent condition, worth the exhibition in a museum. Foot broken and re-attached, small chip at lip, otherwise undamaged. On the bottom sticker "CP GJO Attic 580BC" from Davies Antiques gallery.
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| References: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Dublin and Cork, University College Dublin and University College Cork, Pl. 17.1-3 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Norway, Public and Private Collections, Pl. 31.4 |
| Provenance: |
Acquired 2017 from the German private collection M. Voos, inherited in this from the German private collection H. Herbst. Acquired for the Herbst collection around 1976 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London (copy of the invoice is at hand).
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| Authenticity: |
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