AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BERLIN PAINTER CIRCA 490 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED LEKYTHOS
Attributed to the Berlin Painter
Circa 490 B.C.
With Athena standing at the center, her feet turned to the right, her body frontal, and her head turned back, a spear in her raised right hand, her left arm bent with her splayed hand at her hip, the goddess wearing a short garment doubled in thickness along her chest creating voluminous cascading folds, her long chiton below with three columns of narrow folds and a hem of dotted circles, her scaly aegis bordered with a fringe of bearded snakes, the gorgoneion intentionally absent, a choker with a cruciform pendant above the aegis, a crested diadem in her long hair which is neatly pulled back and tied with a coiffure bag visible on her left shoulder, the tassels in added red falling along her shoulder, standing on a groundline of six meanders bisected by a single cross-square, a band of egg at the base of the neck
14½ in. (36.8 cm.) high

来源

with Herzer & Co., Munich, 1970s.
American Private Collection.

拍品专文

Compare a depiction of the goddess on a nolan amphora by the same artist in the Yale University Art Gallery, especially in regard to the treatment of the face, coiffure and aegis, no. 15, p. 141 and 153 in Neils, Goddess and Polis, the Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens.