Greece, Attic, 4th BC.
Lekythos aryballos
Red-figure vase depicting an Eros knelling and holding a large plate, between a standing woman wrapped in a
cloth and a young sitting naked man.
Delicate decoration of palmette, egg-and-darts, volute and vegetal friezes.
The refinement of the work remind of the « Kercht » style.
Black-varnished terracotta enhanced with white paint and gold traces.
H: 14.9 cm.
Provenance:
ex. former private collection.
Literature:
Biblio. : H. R. W. Smith, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, United States of America, M. H. de Young Memorial
Museum and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1943, pp. 50-51, pl. XXVIII.
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