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Lekythos (oil flask): Dionysos Holding a Kantharos
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A bearded Dionysos stands facing right, wearing a long chiton, whose fine creases are done in diluted gloss, and mantle. He holds a staff with an ivy sprig in his left hand and a kantharos (two-handled drinking cup) drawn in silhouette in his right. He wears a wreath and stands barefoot.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Philipp Lederer Lugano Switzerland. [Charles Lucien Morley St. Moritz Switzerland and New York (by 1942)] sold; to Frederick M. Watkins New Haven CT (1942-1972) bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University 1972.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
Title: Lekythos (oil flask): Dionysos Holding a Kantharos
Description:
A bearded Dionysos stands facing right, wearing a long chiton, whose fine creases are done in diluted gloss, and mantle.
He holds a staff with an ivy sprig in his left hand and a kantharos (two-handled drinking cup) drawn in silhouette in his right.
He wears a wreath and stands barefoot.
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