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Red-figure Lekythos: Eros and Stylized Florals
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
As noted in unpublished McDaniel catalogue and in object file this vase was purchased from Dr. H. D. Motamed in December 1966.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Red-figure Lekythos: Eros and Stylized Florals
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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