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Attic White-Ground Lekythos

An ancient Attic Greek white-ground lekythos with palmettes and two rows of vine leaves around the body and palmettes on the shoulder.

Athens, Attica.

Ca. 500 – 450 BC.

Height: 9 in. (22.9 cm).

The lekythos was used to hold olive oil in antiquity and was often left as a grave offering.

cf.: D. C. Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythos, Patterns and Painters, (Oxford, 1975), p. 70.

Formerly in the collection of Jerome Eisenberg, New York, acquired at Sotheby’s, London, 1990.

Inv#: 9246

$5,000

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