2007.104.24: Red-figure Lekythos: Eros and Stylized Florals

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.104.24

Title

Red-figure Lekythos: Eros and Stylized Florals

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

325 BCE-300 BCE

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Apulia

Period

Hellenistic period, Early

Culture

Greek

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54880

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Wheel-made

Dimensions

26.5 x 11.9 cm (10 7/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

As noted in unpublished McDaniel catalogue and in object file, this vase was purchased from Dr. H. D. Motamed in December 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University

Accession Year

2007

Object Number

2007.104.24

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Buff fabric with lustrous black glaze. High ring base. Trumpet-like spout set on narrow, vertically striped neck. Strap handle attached at top of neck and just below shoulder. Rounded shoulder decorated with small palmettes. Larger and more elaborate palmettes beneath handle. On body of vessel, Eros is seated on a blossom cup amidst fantastically rendered florals. Details of the scene are in added white and yellow. A narrow maeander pattern runs around the body below the scene. Reconstructed from several fragments.

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