Details
AN ATTIC WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
RECALLING THE QUADRATE PAINTER
CIRCA 440 B.C.
With a youthful warrior and a draped woman standing on either side of a stela, the youth wearing a red chlamys draped over his shoulders, holding two spears in his left hand, the woman clad in a long red peplos, carrying a large patera embellished with a band of laurel in her left hand, a red fillet hanging below, the stepped stela festooned with fillets and surmounted by a roaring lion in profile to the right; a band of meander above, the shoulders with palmettes and tendrils, ovolo at the base of the neck
12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Spencer-Churchill Collection, Northwick Park (Gloucestershire); Christie's, London, 22 June 1965, probably lot 337.
Arthur and Marjorie Silver Collection, Los Angeles; Sotheby's, New York, 12-13 December 1991, lot 88.
Literature
J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 1240.
A.J. Paul, Exhibition catalogue, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, Tampa, 2001, no. 24.
Exhibited
Tampa Museum of Art, A View into Antiquity: Pottery from the Collection of William Suddaby and David Meier, 14 October 2001-13 January 2002 (loan extended through 2003).
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