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THBGreek Attic White Ground Black Figure Lekythos
Lot 45
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Ancient Greece, Athens, Attic, ca. 6th century BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery lekythos of inverted piriform construction that features a beautiful white ground upon which elaborate, black-figure geometric patterns are illustrated. Adorning the elegant vessel from top to bottom are concentric bands of frets and then semicircles of Greek meander, latticework, crosshatching, additional latticework, and, finally, solid rings of black. Size: 2.55" W x 7.75" H (6.5 cm x 19.7 cm)
Lekythos vases were among the various offerings and monuments paying tribute to the deceased in Athenian cemeteries. Lekythoi traditionally held oil and were decorated in the white ground technique from the middle until the end of the fifth century BCE. The term white ground relates to the light slip coating on the body and shoulder of the vase. Upon this background, figures and accoutrements were drawn in outline and then hand painted in rich colors. The iconography traditionally features tombs, visitors to these tomb sights, and touching farewell scenes, as the vast majority of these vessels were created for burial with the dead or to be offerings presented at their graves.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 51.163
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-L.S. Hartsdale, New York, USA, acquired around 1950s to 1960s, thence by descent
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#187348Light resurfacing on area of verso, with small chips to foot and upper rim, otherwise intact and excellent. Great preservation to black figure motifs. Previous inventory label beneath foot.Condition
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