Greek Attic White Ground Lekythos - Haimon Painter

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Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

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Feb 21, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Greece, Attica, attributed to the workshop of the Haimon Painter, ca. early 5th century BCE. A lovely Attic white ground black-figure lekythos presenting a lovely composition of a charioteer holding the reins to three horses - three overlapping equine heads and sets of legs are visible - and a lovely female maenad holding a snake and thyrsus facing the charioteer. In addition to this iconography, the field is beautifully decorated with a band of staggered dots framed by double linear bands above, frets and attenuated strokes on the shoulder, and red (unglazed clay body) bands on the lower body and discoid foot. A wonderful example from the workshop of the Haimon Painter. Size: 6" H (15.2 cm)
  
  Lekythoi were used for storing oil used for a wide variety of purposes in the Classical World. While larger examples were usually designated for keeping olive oil, smaller more delicate examples like this one were reserved for the bath to store precious unguents of sweet and floral aromas. This beautiful vessel was most likely created for an elegant lady's toilette.
  
  The Haimon Painter was an Athenian vase painter (ca. 490 BCE - 460 BCE) whose true name is unknown; however, certain characteristics of his style have led scholars to identify his unique approach. He was a prolific black-figure vase painter who specialized in painting scenes on lekythoi during a period when red-figure vase painters were first emerging. According to the British Museum, "Beazley called him the Haimon Painter following Haspels ABL, who first assembled the work of the painter on the basis of style and named the painter after the subject of the Sphinx with her victim that he painted four times. Haimon, the son of Creon (q.v.), was the last and fairest victim of the Sphinx."
  
  Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Mazard Family collection, France, acquired in the 1970s
  
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  #143960

  Condition

  Chip to foot. Some calcification around the top of the vessel's foot. Spout/neck reattached with breakline at midline of the neck to above the handle. Some pitting and wear to the surface with some pigment loss as shown, though the iconography and decorative program are still quite nice.
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