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Attic black figure lekythos.
The lekythos is the archetypal funerary oil vase in attic pottery.
The warrior wears a corinthian crested helmet and carries a shield and spear with details added in purple.
Small black figure lekythos with round base relatively squat body narrow neck and slightly flared mouth.
The shoulder of the lekythos is decorated with a cockerel between two ivy leaves.
This example is decorated in the so called black figure technique.
A female figure is seated on the other side of a vine and plays the double flute or aulos.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.
475 450 bc the body of the vase is decorated with palmettes black banding down towards the foot a ray pattern around the shoulder and the mouth dipped in black dimensions.
Many details now partially faded were highlighted in purple or white paint.
Von bothmer dietrich and alan l.
Body carries image of male figure reclining on a couch beneath a grape arbor.
Hastily drawn meander borders scene at top.
An attic black figure lekythos decorated with a warrior departing from a seated figure and two attendants.
Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases it was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries bc although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century bc.
6 1 2 in 16 4 cm from an ex english private collection.
Culture greek athens cock group c.
Some incisions made with a point before the firing process indicate details of the anatomy and of the clothing.
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