An Attic Red-Figured Lekythos, Attributed to the Bowdoin Painter, 480-470 B.C.

with disk foot and convex handle, the body decorated with Nike in flight holding a phiale and pouring a libation over a burning altar, black-figured linked palmettes on the shoulder, tongues below the neck, meander below the scene, two echeloned rows of dots above; the details in added red wash.

Bronisław Huberman (1882-1947)
J.J. Klejman, New York, May 21st, 1965

Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Vienna, 1933-1935, loan no. 127

Intact, surface seems to have been encrusted and cleaned with incrustation remaining on the handle, mouth, top of neck, and around the body where it meets the foot, small areas of incrustation remaining elsewhere on the body, losses to added red wash.
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For closely related scenes on lekythoi by the Bowdoin Painter, see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, nos. 12565 (Frankfurt), 207924 (Athens), 207964 (Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden), etc.

On the underside is an old rectangular white label typwritten "Leihgabe 127," and a more recent carefully handwritten rectangular white label (Klejman's) containing provenance and attribution information.

The great Polish violinist Bronisław Huberman at age 14 performed the Brahms Violin Concerto in the presence of the composer. A lifelong friend of the pianist Artur Rubinstein, he resigned from the Vienna State Academy in 1936 and used his musical talent and renown for humanitarian purposes, establishing the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv and ultimately saving the lives of hundreds of Jews by providing them with immigration paperwork, as well as by financially sponsoring their resettlement in Tel Aviv. The Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra is known today as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.