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Lot Essay
The Providence Painter, praised as “a very good artist” and “the best of those whose chief work, numerically speaking, was decorating Nolan amphorae and lekythoi,” was a pupil of the Berlin Painter, active between 480-460 B.C. (see J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, p. 635).
On this lekythos, a woman with long curls wearing a diadem and disc-shaped earrings is depicted working wool. She holds a ball of wool in her raised left hand, smoothing it in her right, and stands between a kalathos and a stool with a patterned cushion. The shoulders are decorated with palmettes and lotus buds, and a band of alternating three meanders and a cross frames the scene.
On this lekythos, a woman with long curls wearing a diadem and disc-shaped earrings is depicted working wool. She holds a ball of wool in her raised left hand, smoothing it in her right, and stands between a kalathos and a stool with a patterned cushion. The shoulders are decorated with palmettes and lotus buds, and a band of alternating three meanders and a cross frames the scene.