A Boeotian black-figure lekanis

CIRCA 540 B.C.

Details

A Boeotian black-figure lekanis
Circa 540 B.C.
The interior black-glazed with central cream-glazed tondo decorated with a bearded Silenus running animatedly to the right, the cream-glazed exterior with a Corinthian style frieze comprising three Sirens with outspread wings between three walking panthers with curling tails, schematic rosettes in the field, details incised and in added purple and white, a band of V's around the foot and short diagonal wavy lines around the rim, twin loop handles to either side, details incised and in added purple and white, repaired
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology accompanies this lot (ref. 481s64).

Cf. L. Marangou (ed.) Minoan and Greek Civilization from the Mitsotakis Collection, Athens, 1992, p. 289, no. 359 for a Boeotian lekanis with siren in the tondo; Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen AG Basel, 56, 19 February 1980, pp. 20-21, pl. 15, no. 45 for a Boeotian lekanis with a boar; A. H. Smith and F. N. Pryce, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain fascicule 2, British Museum fasc. 2, 1926, pl. 7, nos. 1-4 for Attic and Boeotian examples.

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