- Museum number
- 1874,1110.1
- Description
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Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil or perfume flask).
On the left stands a woman in a long sleeved chiton, with hair in sphendone, holding on both forearms a mantle heaped up, which she is about to give to a smaller girlish figure confronting her and holding out both hands to receive it; the hair of this figure is short; above her hangs a very small oinochoe to left; and on each side, a saccos with strings ending in trefoils. Above the centre,
ΗΥΓΙΑΙΝΟΝ ΚΑΛΟΣ, ΄Υγιαίνων καλός.
Drawing of finest period. Brown glazed outline; hair stippled black on brown; rolled-up mantle and sacci red, the folds in the mantle brown. Eye in profile. Above, a strip of sets of three maeanders broken by white cross squares; and on shoulder, a pattern of three palmettes below egg pattern, all black on white. This lekythos has the interior divided in two by a thin horizontal partition, rather more than half-way up the body; this partition is water-tight, and slopes downward towards the centre. The lower portion of the vase has also its outlet, a small circular orifice about ¼ in. in diam., cut evidently when the clay was still soft, at about 1½ in. upward from the foot.
- Production date
- 460BC-430BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 35.56 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
White Athenian Vases, pl. 2; Klein, Lieblingsinschr. p. 86; Heydemann, 3 Hall. Winckelmannspr. p. 56, note 104; J.H.S. xii, p. 316; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 95. Cf. Arch. Zeit. 1873, p. 53, note 2.
- Location
- On display (G15/dc4)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.103
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.103
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.103
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1874,1110.1
