Lekythos, between 475 and 450 BCE

  • Greek

Glazed earthenware

  • Overall: 4 5/8 × 2 inches (11.7 × 5.1 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 1 5/16 inches (3.4 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.242

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany), no. 129

collection Herzog Albert Ernest Alfred [Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha] (Gotha, Germany)

collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany), no. H. A. 140

(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 37, cat. 49, (fig. 73) [attributed to the workshop of the Bedlam Painter].

Greek, Lekythos, between 475 and 450 BCE, glazed earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.242.