Lekythos Artist: Unknown

4th century B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Medium

Ceramic (light brown to reddish yellow clay: Munsell 7.5 YR 6.4 or 7.6). Gnathia ware. Black glaze with added white pigment

Dimensions

19.7 × 8.8 cm (7 3/4 × 3 7/16 in.)
to top of broken neck: 15.8 cm (6 1/4 in.)
separated neck piece: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.296

Culture

Greek, South Italian, Apulian

Period

Late Classical or Early Hellenistic

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Ex collection Dr. Paul Arndt, Munich.
Bibliography
  • J. M. Padgett et al., Vase Painting in Italy: Red-Figure and Related Works in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993), 202–203, no. 126.
  • Arthur Dale Trendall, Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989).
  • Wendy M. Watson, South Italian Greek Vases: From the collection of George Walter Vincent and Belle Townsley Smith (Springfield, Mass.: G.W. Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1986), 114–115, no. 63.
  • Margaret Ellen Mayo and Kenneth Hamma, The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), 251–79.
  • J. R. Green, "More Gnathia Pottery in Bonn," Archaologischer Anzeiger (1977): 551–63.
  • J. R. Green, "Some Painters of Gnathia Vases," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London 15 (1968): 34–50.
  • T. B.L. Webster, "Towards a Classification of Apulian Gnathian," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London 15 (1968): 1–33.
  • 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), 177, no. 296.
  • 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), 31, no. 301.
  • Carl Watzinger, Griechische Holzsarkophage aus der Zeit Alexanders der Grossen (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1905), 9, fig. 19.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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