An ancient Attic Greek white-ground lekythos with a black lattice pattern on the body with dots in the diamond shaped negative space, a meander at the shoulder.
Athens, Attica.
Ca. 500 – 450 BC.
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. 71.
Formerly in the collection of Jerome Eisenberg, New York.
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