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Lot 90

A large Attic red-figure lekythos

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A large Attic red-figure lekythos
Attributed to the Painter of the Yale Lekythos, circa 480-460 B.C.
Depicting two women draped in himations, both with their hair dressed beneath a sakkos, one seated and holding a mirror in her outstretched hand, the other standing facing the seated woman holding up a small vessel in her proper right hand, a lekythos in the field, a band of meander above and below, the shoulder with scrolling palmette and lotus decoration, a band of ovolo at the base of the neck, details in added black, 29.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired by the current owner from l'Art Ancien, Montreal, 5 September 1987.

For two other lekythoi with draped seated women holding mirrors see Beazley Archive nos. 14511 and 275363.

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