Two Attic Red-Figured Lekythoi
Attributed to the Berlin Painter, Circa 490-480 B.C.
Height of largest 16 inches (40.6 cm).

Provenance:
Munzen und Medaillen, Basel, acquired by 1963.
Tilly and Herbert A. Cahn, Basel, acquired by 1971 (no. HC128).
H.A.C., Basel, 1996 (Lekythoi, Oinochoi: Kannen und Lekythen der Antiken Welt , no. 16 [Berlin Painter]; no. 17 [other]).
Private Collection, acquired from the above, 1998.
with Colnaghi Gallery, New York, 2019.

Published:
Berlin Painter: J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, vol. 2,
Oxford, 1963, p. 1635, no. 202bis.
J.D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-
Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1971, p. 343, no. 202bis.
J.M. Padgett, The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-
Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton, 2017, p. 385, no. B202bis; p. 402, no. FN14bis.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 275102.

The taller of these two lekthoi has a unique past. When Beazley first saw it, the palmette designed shoulder was married to figural fragments all attributed to the Berlin Painter. However, by 1970, the figural and floral fragments had been divorced, as these parts were correctly identified as belonging to two different vases. (op. cit., 1963)