An Attic Red-figured Lekythos, attributed to Near the Achilles Painter, circa 460-440 B.C.

decorated with the figure of a woman facing left, wearing a chiton and himation, and holding an alabastron in the palm of her hand, a stool behind her, an ornate piece of cloth with tassels in added red wash hanging on the wall, a band of meanders, dotted saltire squares, and crossed squares below the scene, another band of alternating meanders and crossed squares above the scene, the reserved shoulder with five linked palmettes painted in black-figure beneath encircling tongues.

Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York
J. Gordon Hanes, Jr. (1916-1995), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, acquired from the above prior to 1980
by descent to the present owner

For a closely related subject on a smaller lekythos attributed to the Achilles Painter see J.H. Oakley, The Achilles Painter, Mainz am Rhein, 1997, p. 129, fig. 9e, pl. 70b (Christie's, London, April 30th, 2008, p. 144).