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AN ATTIC WHITE GROUND LEKYTHOS, attributed to the Woman Painter, circa 420 B.C.
Depicting three women at the tomb. The woman standing on the left wears a long diaphanous chiton and holds a large flat basket decorated with red taeniae in her left hand and opens the lid with her right hand. In front of the broad bedecked tomb, which is embellished with a red 'floral' pediment surmounted by akroteria, sits another woman dressed in a similar chiton with red bordered himation, holding an alabastron in her right hand. Standing to the right is another woman similarly dressed holding a basket with dangling red taeniae and containing a wreath, stretching out her right arm behind the head of the second woman
The shoulder is decorated with red and black palmettes, with a band of meanders below
Condition: composed from many fragments, with small areas of restoration on the back; surface has flaked off in several places; some drawing missing
13 3/8in. (34cm.) high
Depicting three women at the tomb. The woman standing on the left wears a long diaphanous chiton and holds a large flat basket decorated with red taeniae in her left hand and opens the lid with her right hand. In front of the broad bedecked tomb, which is embellished with a red 'floral' pediment surmounted by akroteria, sits another woman dressed in a similar chiton with red bordered himation, holding an alabastron in her right hand. Standing to the right is another woman similarly dressed holding a basket with dangling red taeniae and containing a wreath, stretching out her right arm behind the head of the second woman
The shoulder is decorated with red and black palmettes, with a band of meanders below
Condition: composed from many fragments, with small areas of restoration on the back; surface has flaked off in several places; some drawing missing
13 3/8in. (34cm.) high