About the Artwork
Lekythos
4th century BCE
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Greek
Unknown
Earthenware
Overall: 6 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (16.5 × 6 cm) Overall (diam of mouth): 1 7/16 inches (3.6 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 1 7/8 inches (4.8 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
24.149
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marked, paper label, on bottom: H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh.
Provenance
collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany)
collection Herzog Albert Ernest Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany)
placed on deposit, (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany), no. 324
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 56-57, cat. 72, (fig. 103) [attributed to Robinson's type 2 of palmette lekythoi].
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Greek, Lekythos, 4th century BCE, earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.149.
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