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Lebes with Cover and Stand
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Lebes, lid, and stand are all separate pieces. All are of a coarse yellowish-buff fabric with many inclusions and have a brick-red slip with decoration in white, yellow, and black. Large lebes is cauldron-shaped. The flat rim is encircled by worn black and white bands. The body of the vessel is decoraed with a faded frieze of six running hounds, four of which run to the right, two to the left. The figures appear to have been outlined and detailed in black and then filled with white and/or yellow. The lid is decorated with alternating black and white concentric circles. Its knob is black. The stand is of a slightly thicker fabric and has a more vivid red slip. It is decorated with stripes of white, black and yellow, with an intervening wave frieze in white.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Etruscan Lebes with Stand and Lid: Purchased from George Allen Hesperia Art Philadelphia PA January 1966. Judged and said to have come from the neighborhood of Veii.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Lebes with Cover and Stand
Description:
Lebes, lid, and stand are all separate pieces.
All are of a coarse yellowish-buff fabric with many inclusions and have a brick-red slip with decoration in white, yellow, and black.
Large lebes is cauldron-shaped.
The flat rim is encircled by worn black and white bands.
The body of the vessel is decoraed with a faded frieze of six running hounds, four of which run to the right, two to the left.
The figures appear to have been outlined and detailed in black and then filled with white and/or yellow.
The lid is decorated with alternating black and white concentric circles.
Its knob is black.
The stand is of a slightly thicker fabric and has a more vivid red slip.
It is decorated with stripes of white, black and yellow, with an intervening wave frieze in white.
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