拍品 222
222
AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH PAINTER, CIRCA 510-490 B.C.
With Achilles in the centre, one leg raised and putting on a cnemid (leg protector), in front of Thetis, who holds a long spear and hands him a crested helmet, a female figure behind him, perhaps a nereid, holding a long spear and gesturing with her left hand, the scene framed by two Greek warriors, perhaps the Myrmidons, facing inwards and looking back over their shoulders, wearing full armour, carrying shields and long spears, with linked palmettes on shoulder, tongues around the base of the neck, some details in 'second white'
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
來源
Louis-Gabriel Bellon collection (1819-1899), France; sold with Jacques-Philippe Ruellan, Vannes, 4 April 2009, lot 23.
Accompanied by a French passport.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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The Edinburgh Painter is the most well-known and arguably the best funerary lekythos painter of the Late Archaic Period. This lekythos combines two decorative techniques which were popular with Attic potters in the last decades of the 6th Century B.C., the ancient black-figure technique with incised detailing and added white or purple, and the later innovation of white-ground which became widespread in the 5th Century B.C., particularly on funerary lekythoi. The white details on the black-figured areas are known as 'second white'. For a discussion on Attic vase painting techniques, cf. B. Cohen, The Colors of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Malibu, 2006. On the Edinburgh painter cf. J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters, New York, 1978, p. 476ff.

The scene depicted here represents an important moment in the Trojan War, as related in book XIX of The Iliad. Following the death of his best friend Patroclus, Achilles decided to resume the fight against the Trojans. His mother Thetis commissioned Hephaestus to make a new set of armour for him which she presents to her son here as he and his soldiers mourn the loss of their friend. Cf. A. Kossatz-Deissmann, LIMC, vol. I., "Achilleus", pls. 187-198.