An Attic Red‑Figured Squat Lekythos
Sale 1273 - Antiquities & Ancient Art: Including Property from the Brummer Collection
Dec 5, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$2,000 -
3,000
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$2,142
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Lot Description
An Attic Red‑Figured Squat Lekythos
Circa 440-430 B.C.
Height 4 1/4 inches (10.8 cm).
Property from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, sold to benefit future acquisitions
Provenance:
Alice Dodge, Washington, D.C., prior to 1971.
Gifted to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 1971. [Acc. no. 71.30.2]
Published:
J. Oakley, The Achilles Painter, Mainz, 1997, p. 166, pl. 174b (illus.).
This squat lekythos is attributed by Dietrich von Bothmer to Beazley's White-line Class of squat lekythoi in a letter dated 14 February 1972. Some lekythoi of this Class have been attributed to the Achilles Painter, while others, such as this example, "probably [...] come from the same workshop" (Beazley, ARV2, p. 1009).
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