Two Attic red-figure squat lekythoi

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Two Attic red-figure squat lekythoi
Circa mid 5th Century B.C.
One decorated with a winged siren, the other with a running leopard, both 9cm high (2)

Provenance:
Acquired by the current owner from Dr. Christoph Lean, Switzerland, 15 May 2002.

Sirens, female-headed birds associated with the afterlife, were often depicted on lekythoi which were also connected with burial rituals. There is another squat lekythos decorated with an Attic siren in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 41.162.123.