1925.30.53: Lekythos (oil flask): Offerings at a Tomb
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.53
- Title
- Lekythos (oil flask): Offerings at a Tomb
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 450 BCE-400 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica
- Period
- Classical period, High
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/286329
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- White ground
- Dimensions
- 30.4 cm (11 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- JCH purchased in Athens 1897.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #217761
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.53
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Offerings at a tomb; in center, a garlanded stele with pediment on two steps; at r. a woman in a chiton with a cloak thrown over her l. shoulder, on the l. a draped youth leaning on a staff)
Publication History
- Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
- George M. A. Hanfmann, Greek Art and Life, An Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1950), no. 134.
- Sarah Jane Rennie, "The Identification of Original Decoration on a Collection of Attic White Ground Lekythoi" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-24 passim
Exhibition History
- Greek Art and Life: From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Private Lenders, Fogg Art Museum, 03/07/1950 - 04/15/1950
Verification Level
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