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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE ATHENA PAINTER , CIRCA 500-485 B.C.
Description
- AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE ATHENA PAINTER
- Height 11 3/4 in. 29.7 cm
Provenance
reportedly found at Gela in Sicily
Jacob Hirsch, New York, 1933
Literature
Blue Book of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1931-1942, pp. 60 and 121, Fig. a
C.H. Emilie Haspels, Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi, Paris, 1936, p. 256, Appendix XV, No. 34
Margarete Bieber, "Two Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi in Buffalo," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 48/2, 1944, pp. 121-129, Fig. 2
Anne Dunman Ure, "Koes," Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 71, 1951, pl. XLII
John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase Painters, Oxford, 1956, p. 522
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, New York, 1979, pp. 60-61 (illustrated)
Harvey A. Shapiro, Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens, Mainz, 1989, pl.15A (part)
Jenifer Neils, ed., Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens, Princeton, 1992, pp. 18 and 182, No. 55
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, No. 330737
Catalogue Note
Athena Promachos is one of the rightly-named Athena Painter’s favorite subjects on lekythoi, usually in the context of gigantomachies (e.g. CVA, Gela, Vol. 4, pl. 37, 1-3, and CVA, Norway, pl. 18,1-3), but sometimes shown by herself (G. Semeraro, En neusi. Ceramica greca e società nel Salento arcaico, Bari, 1997, Fig. 63). For a black-figured white-ground lekythos by the Athena Painter showing Hermes and three female deities, see Sotheby’s, New York, June 9, 2004, no. 11.