Large white-ground athenian Lekythos - Chariot with four horses
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AR3382
| Object: |
Lekythos (oil vessel)
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| Material: |
Red clay, white ground with scene in black and painting in red
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| Date: |
About 500 B.C. Athenian, possibly from the workshop of the Haimon painter. |
| Description: |
High cylindrical lekythos. Flat shoulder, separated from the high neck. Discus-shaped foot. The scene on the body shows a chariot with four horses. One person is mounting the chariot, holding a spear. Another person is walking to the right behind the horses. In front of the horses a person seated on a stool. Wand of winding lines with lotus buds and band of short rays on shoulder. Spout, handle, upper part of foot and lower body covered with black slip. |
| Size: |
Height 233 mm, diameter 95 mm
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| Condition: |
Foot and handle reattached. Otherwise body in very good condition. Typical surface wear for this vessel type. The black-figure scene of fine workmanship is excellently preserved.
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| Reference: |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Heidelberg, Universität 4, 60-61, Pl. 174.4-6
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| Provenance: |
Acquired 2022 in a German auction house. Ex German private collection K. H. K. (1949 - 2005). Acquired before 1990, probably even before 1982 from the collection of Dr. Johannes Christof Roselt (1926 - 2004), director of the Bergisch Museum, Burg an der Wupper, Germany.
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| Authenticity: |
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