F2452 beazley archive vase no.
Attic white ground lekythos.
Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
Relief from a carved funerarylekythos national archaeological museum of athens.
This athenian white ground lekythos depicts a woman performing these tasks.
26 9 cm high attributed to the dessypri painter circa 430 b c.
The image shown on the lekythos is of two women one a maid and one a mistress.
Attic white ground lekythos painter of athens 1826 greek attic active about 460 450 b c 24 7 8 9 cm 9 3 4 3 1 2 in 86 ae 253 open content images tend to be large in file size.
It was possibly found in athens and is from the attica region and is labeled as early classical.
It is titled attic white ground lekythos ca.
Spanning barely a century the white ground style developed in athens alongside the red figure technique.
It was possibly found in athens and is from the attica region and is labeled as early classical.
The image shown on the lekythos is of two women one a maid and one a mistress.
White ground technique is a style of white ancient greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white background.
These vases of limited production and use are conspicuous in the finesse of their design and also in their extreme fragility.
460 bc and was painted by the achilles painter.
Its dimensions are h.
The images on lekythoi were often depictions of daily activities or rituals.
It is titled attic white ground lekythos ca.
It has a narrow body and one handle lekythos attic white ground lekythos c.
Its dimensions are h.
An attic outline white ground lekythos 10 5 8 in.
Bowls alabastra and lekythoi in particular feature among the vessels produced.
The rounded object behind the woman is the tymbos or grave mound.
490 bc achilles dragging the body ofhector below left.
A lekythos plural lekythoi is a type of ancient greek vessel used for storing oil greek λήκυθος especially olive oil.
It developed in the region of attica dated to about 500 bc.
An exaleiptron a vessel designed to hold perfumed oil sits atop the tymbos which has been decorated with offerings of fillets or ribbons spears and leafy branches.
460 bc and was painted by the achilles painter.
For a white ground lekythos by the quadrate painter with another example of the stele with acanthus and bird see the antikensammlung berlin acc.
Attic white ground lekythos c.
490 bc achilles dragging the body of hector the lekythos was used for anointing dead bodies of unmarried women and many lekythoi are found in tombs.