Greek Attic Pottery White Ground Lekythos

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. first half of the 5th century BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery lekythos of a tall and slender form with a piriform body resting atop a discoid foot. The planar shoulder tapers to form a cylindrical neck with a bell-shaped rim, and a thick handle arches from the verso of the neck. The once-white ground has darkened slightly to exhibit a soft peach color atop which rows of lattice patterns and Greek meander are presented. A trio of linear palmette leaves decorate the central panel of the body, and radiating around the shoulder are dozens of slender frets. Size: 2.45" Diameter x 7.4" H (6.2 cm x 18.8 cm)

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 51.163

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private T.G. collection, Williston, Florida, USA, #2895, acquired in 2000; ex-private German collection

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Condition Report: Repairs to neck, handle, and upper body, with resurfacing and light-colored overpainting along break lines. Loss to painted decorations on section of shoulder and back half of body as shown. Abrasions and nicks to foot, body, shoulder, handle, and rim, with touch-up painting to some remaining decorations on body. Nice remains to original pigment on body. Old inventory label and old inventory number written in black ink beneath foot.