Lekythos showing a Domestic Scene Artist: Painter of the Yale Lekythos (name vase) (Greek, Attic, ca. 475–450 B.C.)

ca. 460 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Terracotta, red-figure

Dimensions

33.9 × 12.2 cm (13 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
Mouth: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.)
other (Foot): 8.3 cm(3 1/4 in.)
Diameter, foot: 1.7 × 8.3 cm (11/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.146

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Early Classical

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
From Gela, Sicily; ex. collection "Dr. B. et M.C.," 1910 (Sale catalogue, "Coll. Dr. B. et M. C., objets antiques," sale of 19-21 May 1910, plate 20, no 168); ex collection Paul Arndt, Munich. Purcased for Yale University by Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913
Bibliography
  • J. M. Padgett, ed., The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2017), 68, fig. 2.
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 28–29, no. 23, pls. 31.5–8, 32.2, 63.4, fig. 23.
  • Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 18–19, fig. 5.
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 263, ill.
  • Susan B. Matheson, Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness: Neoclassical Art 1700–1900, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1991), 21, no. 60.
  • Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 and Paralipomena, 2nd (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 227, no. 658.30.
  • Susan B. Matheson, Greek Vases: A Guide to the Yale Collection, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1988), 30–31, ill.
  • Susan B. Matheson and Jerome Jordan Pollitt, Greek Vases at Yale, 1st ed., exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1975), 66–68, no. 56, ill.
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, "The Stoddard Collection of Greek Vases," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University (1929).
  • Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, Ancient Furniture: A History of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Furniture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928), 92, fig. 225.
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 98-99, no. 146, fig. 30.
  • Sir John Davidson Beazley, Attic Red Figure Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1918), 72–74.
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 17, no. 148.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

daily life, lekythoi

Subject

women

Technical metadata and APIs

IIIF

Open in Mirador

View IIIF manifest

The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF, is an open standard for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. Visit iiif.io to learn more

Linked Art

API response for this object

Linked Art is a Community working together to create a shared Model based on Linked Open Data to describe Art.