Lekythos; Youth and Girl at Tomb Artist, attributed to: Painter of Munich 2335 (Greek, Attic, ca. 450-420 B.C.)

ca. 430 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Terracotta, white ground with red, yellow and brown wash.

Dimensions

12 13/16 × 3 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (32.6 × 10 × 9.8 cm)
Mouth: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)
Foot: 2 11/16 in. (6.9 cm)

Credit Line

Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund

Accession Number

1982.50

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Classical

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Ex coll. Christian Humann; Mathias Komor, acquired from the above, ca. 1964/5; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1982.
Bibliography
  • Milette Gaifman, The Art of Libation in Classical Athens (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018), 91-92, fig. 3.3
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt and Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 160, fig. CD/W 4.28
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 31–32, no. 26, pls. 34–35, 63.6, fig. 24, 24a
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 263, ill
  • "Acquisitions 1982," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 1 (Winter 1984), 38, 54, ill
  • Susan B. Matheson, "Two New Greek Vases for Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 39, no. 2 (Fall 1984), 8–9, fig. 1–3
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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lekythoi

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