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Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos - Musicians

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Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos - Musicians

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Greece, Athens, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A beautiful black-figure lekythos, the central register featuring three seated female musicians, the central figure playing a lyre - incised strokes highlighting the figures. Adding to this figurative program are radiating frets and petal-shaped strokes on the shoulder, a dotted register separated by striations above the figures, and horizontal bands below and on the spout. Lekythoi were used for storing oil used for a wide variety of purposes in the Classical World. While larger examples were usually designated for keeping olive oil, smaller more delicate examples like this one were reserved for the bath to store precious unguents of sweet and floral aromas. A lovely ceramic work from an elegant lady's toilette. Size: 7.375" H (18.7 cm)

Athens excelled in ceramics from the first half of the sixth century BCE, and its creations outnumbered those of all other artistic centers in the ancient world. Greek pottery became synonymous with Attic ware, the pottery created in the region around Athens, as it was regarded as the most beautiful and the most 'modern', and thus, the most widely exported. Artists used the black-figure vase painting technique, applying figural and ornamental motifs with a slip that turned black during the firing process; however the background remained the inherent color of the clay. As we see in this example, vase painters articulated individual forms by incising the slip. Sometimes additional white (and sometimes purple) slip details were added. The form of representation was still somewhat Archaic, with heads and bodies shown in strict profile; however, this example begins to demonstrate an interest in three-dimensional modelling of the figures and conveying movement and the illusion of depth.

Provenance: Ex-private French collection, acquired at Drouot in Paris in the 1970’s.

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Intact with no restoration. Expected surface wear with minor pigment losses and scratches.

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Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos - Musicians

Name: Greek Attic Black Figure Lekythos - Musicians
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Price: 1200 USD
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