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Lot 49

An Attic white-ground lekythos

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Attic white-ground lekythos
Circa 5th Century B.C.
Depicting a young man looking over his right shoulder with his right arm outstretched, wearing an ivy wreath and a chlamys covering a short pleated tunic with a petasos tied around his neck, his left arm holding an upright staff, a KALOS inscription to the proper right of the figure, a band of meander above with linked palmettes on the shoulder, 26cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Charterhouse School collection, London, by 1921.
The Charterhouse Collection; Sotheby's, London, 5 November 2002, lot 52 (part lot).
Private collection, UK, acquired from the above sale.
Beazley Archive no. 9027995.

Published:
'Greek vases in Charterhouse Museum', The Greyfriar, vol. 7, no. 103, April 1921, p. 88, fig. 3, where this lekythos is described as 'the gem of our Charterhouse collection'.

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