Lot 36
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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
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THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS SCHOLAR
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE MEIDIAS PAINTER, CIRCA 420-400 B.C.

Details
AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE MEIDIAS PAINTER, CIRCA 420-400 B.C.
5 ½ in. (13.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, France (Dr. B or M.C.).
Objets antiques et du Moyen Age: Marbres, orfèvrerie, verrerie, céramique, bronzes, ivoires, Provenant des Collections du Dr. B. et de M.C., Me. Lair Dubreuil, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-21 May 1910, lot 193.
Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris.
Objets d'art et de haute curiosité de l'antiquité, du Moyen age, de la Renaissance et autres…Formant la Collection de M. Arthur Sambon, Me. Lair Dubreuil, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25-28 May 1914, lot 107.
Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 30 June 1956, lot 141.
Private Collection, Riehen, Switzerland; thence by descent.
with Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2020.
Literature
N. Himmelmann-Wildschütz, "Zur knidischen Aphrodite I," Marburger Winckelmann-Programm 1957, Marburg, 1957, p. 13, figs. 4-5.
A. Delivorrias, et al., "Aphrodite," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. II, Zurich and Munich, 1984, pt. 1, p. 47, no. 369; pt. 2, p. 35, no. 369.
W. Oenbrink, Das Bild im Bilde: Zur Darstellung von Götterstatuen auf Griechischen Vasen, Frankfurt, 1997, pp. 89-91, no. B7; p. 434, pl. 22, c.
M. de Cesare, Le statue in immagine: Studi sulle raffigurazioni di statue nella pittura vascolare greca, Rome, 1997, p. 68, fig. 22; p. 251, no. 159; p. 284, no. 387.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 8717.
Digital LIMC Database no. 39084.

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Lot Essay

Centered on the body of this lekythos is an archaic cult statue of Aphrodite, in added white, holding a phiale in each hand. To the left is a female figure, likely the goddess herself, seated on a tendril, looking back towards the statue. To the right, a winged nude Eros crouches above tendrils and offers a beaded fillet to the statue. The scene is framed below by a band of ovolo, with laurel above, the berries highlighted by gilding, with tongues on the neck and palmettes and tendrils below the handle. For a squat lekythos attributed the Manner of the Meidias Painter, also centered by a cult statue of Aphrodite, now in the Ashmolean, see no. MM 80 in L. Burn, The Meidias Painter.

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