Lot 541
541
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CLASS OF ATHENS 581
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CLASS OF ATHENS 581

500-480 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CLASS OF ATHENS 581
500-480 B.C.
The body painted with four figures seated on folded stools, all wearing chitons, himations, and fillets, bearded male, possibly Dionysos, facing to the right, gesticulating; a woman, another bearded male, and another woman all facing him infront, the field decorated with a leafless vine, bunches of grapes hanging from it, details in added red and white, shoulder decorated with a chain of lotus buds
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Abbé H. Campbell Collection, Naples.
Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Yorkshire: sold, Christie's London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, 30 April 1975, lot 14.
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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Abbé H. Campbell, Op. cit., no. 6.; J. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 496, no. 184.; and Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 223, no. 184.

Ink inscribed label '37' on base.

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