Lot 463
463
AN ATTIC WHITE GROUND LEKYTHOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE DIOSPHOS WORKSHOP
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AN ATTIC WHITE GROUND LEKYTHOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE DIOSPHOS WORKSHOP

CIRCA 500-470 B.C.

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AN ATTIC WHITE GROUND LEKYTHOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE DIOSPHOS WORKSHOP
CIRCA 500-470 B.C.
With a female lyre-player, standing facing right wrapped in an himation, her hair bound in a sakkos, flanked by double elaborate palmettes with scrolling tendrils, a band of meander above, the shoulder with conjoined lotus buds and rays above, a red painted band around the rim and below the central frieze, repaired
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in 1974.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Antike Kunst, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1975, no. 68.

Cf. D. C. Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythoi, Oxford, 1975, p. 91ff. for a discussion on the Side-Palmette Lekythoi class and the Diosphos Workshop; fig. 29b, pl. 59.3 for a similar lekythos in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (51.163).

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