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NM Ant 2107 :: lekythos, stolen, deaccessioned

Object description: White-ground lekythos. Cup mouth; splaying neck; moulding at junction between neck and shoulder; shoulder sharply set off from body; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; ridge encircling junction between body and base; disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom with central nipple. Red clay; black glaze; white slip; matt, brown, pink and red paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), neck, handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; three black palmette fans, scrolls and dots on shoulder; on body above figures meander and cross pattern between black lines; on body opposite handle two women - the one to the left seated on a klismos, playing a kithara, hanging above her are an oinochoe and a fillet; the standing woman to the right is draped in a pink himation, and holds a red fillet in her left hand, above her are another oinochoe and a fillet plus the inscription 'Diphilos kalos ho Melanopou' ‘¢º§ž™ š§ž™ ‘ž ªð§¡ž¶žÀ’; base line below figures.

Data elements
References (6)

Inventory number

NM Ant 2107

Serie nummer

715

Object

lekythos; stolen; deaccessioned

Object, Swedish

avfört; stulet

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

Gustaf III:s Museum of Antiquities, The Royal Palace, Stockholm. The National Museum, 1967.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, November 22, 1996 - May 20, 1997.

Jönköpings läns museum, 1998

Acquisition

Purchased in 1936 by the National Museum, Stockholm, from First Chamberlain Axel Hallin and wife. Originally purchased in Athens.

Description

White-ground lekythos. Cup mouth; splaying neck; moulding at junction between neck and shoulder; shoulder sharply set off from body; vertical band handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; ridge encircling junction between body and base; disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom with central nipple. Red clay; black glaze; white slip; matt, brown, pink and red paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), neck, handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; three black palmette fans, scrolls and dots on shoulder; on body above figures meander and cross pattern between black lines; on body opposite handle two women - the one to the left seated on a klismos, playing a kithara, hanging above her are an oinochoe and a fillet; the standing woman to the right is draped in a pink himation, and holds a red fillet in her left hand, above her are another oinochoe and a fillet plus the inscription 'Diphilos kalos ho Melanopou' ‘¢º§ž™ š§ž™ ‘ž ªð§¡ž¶žÀ’; base line below figures.

Period

Classical

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

c. 460 BC

Name - Acquired from

Hallin, Axel

Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Comments

Disappeared 2003.; A lekythos (pl. lekythoi) is generally a taller, cylindrical vessel with a small, deep mouth, narrow neck and a single handle. However, many variants of the shape do exist, including the rounded, squat form and the ovoid “Deianeira” form, all in various sizes. They were used for the storage of oils and are especially associated with funerary contexts. Towards the end of the fourth century BC they were functionally replaced by the unguentaria.; Painted by the so-called 'Diphilos Painter'

Keyword

stolen; ceramics

Keyword, Swedish

stulen; stöld

Cf Publications

Achilles Painter (?).

Loan out - Previously

1998.0003, Jönköpings läns museum

Publications

- Antik konst. En konstbok från Nationalmuseum (Årsbok för svenska statens konstsamlingar 6), O. Antonsson (ed.), Stockholm 1958, p.104 and fig. p.105.

- J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters2, Oxford1963, vol.2, 996.

- Antiken. Konst från den grekisk-romerska kulturvärlden ur svenska samlingar ...(Nationalmusei utställningskatalog 313) , Stockholm 1967, 61 n°178.

- Picasso och Medelhavets myter (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm 1997, cat.n°144.

Pottery Ware

Attic; White-ground

Loan in - Previously

in-1977.0002

Height / Höjd

29,2 cm

Diameter

mouth5,9 cm; 6,3 cm

Dimensions

H 29.2. Ø of mouth 5.9. Ø of base 6.3.

Condition

Surface partly worn. Some paint and glaze gone.

Original register

GreekRoman

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