1925.30.10: Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Two Deer Feeding
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1925.30.10
- Title
- Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Two Deer Feeding
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 575 BCE-550 BCE
- Period
- Archaic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292560
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta; pale yellow clay with slip and applied purple
- Dimensions
- 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Beazley Archive Database #306661
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
- Accession Year
- 1925
- Object Number
- 1925.30.10
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Shoulder: two deer feeding with a cock on each side; body of one deer in applied purple with white stripes on belly and white dots on rump; on base, rays. Applied purple stripe on upper edge of rim. The entire vase, except for the shoulder and base, is covered with a dark paint badly worn and unevenly fired (red in spots).
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), p. 5, pl 1, 10 (two views)
Verification Level
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