AN ATTIC WHITE GROUND BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Athena Painter, 500-490 B.C.

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AN ATTIC WHITE GROUND BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Athena Painter, 500-490 B.C.

Depicting a wreathed figure of Apollo running to the right looking back, nude apart from a chlamys, his right arm extended, his left hand holding a bow and two arrows. The hindquarters of a jumping caprid are visible to the right. There is an indecipherable inscription to the right of the god

Finely incised detail on the face, hair and muscles

Condition: repaired, with small area of black glaze lost; forepart of animal missing and restored

10¾in. (27.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. und M., Auktion 40, 13 Dezember 1969, no. 82; Kurtz, AWL, 79, 107 and 201 (note), pl. 14, no. 3. O. Palagia, LIMC, II, 197, no. 67 and pl. 188 (sv Apollo). She compares the pose of Apollo with that on a semi-outline lekythos in Naples (SA 135: ARV² 690, no. 8 = LIMC, II, 223, no. 324, pl. 209)

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