Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Lekythos (oil flask): Charioteer with Horses
View through Harvard Museums
Lekythos has a "chimney mouth, sharp shoulders and a high blunt foot", a type described by John Boardman in Athenian Black Figure Vases, 1974.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Loan from the Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. R. U. Hunter
Title: Lekythos (oil flask): Charioteer with Horses
Description:
Lekythos has a "chimney mouth, sharp shoulders and a high blunt foot", a type described by John Boardman in Athenian Black Figure Vases, 1974.
Related Results
Attic Black-figure Lekythos: Warrior's Departure
Attic Black-figure Lekythos: Warrior's Departure
Depicts departure of a warrior and harnessing of horses.
On body, warrior's departure. On the left a warrior to right looking backwards and wearing a Corinthian helmet, cuirass...
Lekythos (oil flask): Chariot Scene
Lekythos (oil flask): Chariot Scene
Broken at shoulder, with upper part missing. Black graze is abraded. Incisions and drawing are hasty and careless. At rim, a zone of dots between two narrow bands. On body, a figur...
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Four-Horse Chariot and Charioteer; Sphinx and Lions
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Four-Horse Chariot and Charioteer; Sphinx and Lions
The vase is broken and repaired with numerous rivet holes on the body from ancient repairs. In shape, the vessel has a wide body, short neck, and echinus foot. On each side is a fi...
Cloth for men
Cloth for men
A men's cloth (hinggi), consisting of two weaves sewn together. On the cloth are skull trees and horses. The central band shows the 'patola ratu' motif, a motif inspired by the pat...
Lekythos (oil flask): Hunter with Hare and Rabbit
Lekythos (oil flask): Hunter with Hare and Rabbit
White-ground lekythos. Scene depicts a young hunter who wears only a chlamys and walks to the right with a pole on his left shoulder from which are a dead hare and rabbit. With his...
Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Owl and Olive Sprig
Squat Lekythos (oil flask): Owl and Olive Sprig
Squat lekythos decorated in the red-figure technique: owl and olive sprig.
Extensive spalling due to salt damage.
(Lower left in photograph)...
Bridle with Cheek Pieces Depicting Horses
Bridle with Cheek Pieces Depicting Horses
The cheek pieces of this horse bit are in the shape of walking horses. The bit is a square-sectioned rod, hammered and curled in opposite directions on the ends (20.8 cm long, 2.7 ...