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A large Attic black-figure lekythos

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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
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A large Attic black-figure lekythos
Attributed to the Edinburgh Painter, circa 500 B.C.
Depicting a front-facing quadriga with two riders, the two central horses looking towards one another, the outer horses facing away, the quadriga flanked by two warriors holding shields and spears, the warrior on the right holding a shield with a lion's head device, the shoulder with linked palmettes, details incised and in added red and white, 34cm high

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Provenance:
with Galerie Arete, Zurich, 1981 (liste 20, no. 18).
Private collection, London, acquired from the above 7 January 1981.
Beazley Archive no. 13559.

For a similar front-facing chariot scene, see a black-figure white-ground lekythos also by the Edinburgh Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 22.139.3.

The Edinburgh Painter, named for a lekythos in the National Museums of Scotland, was probably active around 500-450 B.C. when tastes began to shift to the new red-figure vase technique. He is credited with introducing the white-ground body technique on lekythoi. He painted in a style similar to that of the Leagros Group which included overlapping figures, restrained anatomical features and a tendency to leave no wasted space on vases, having scenes and decorative devices spill over their allotted areas.

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