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NM Ant 2110 :: lekythos

Object description: White-ground lekythos. Cup mouth; tall, narrow neck with concave profile; ridge around neck top; moulding at junction between neck and shoulder; tapering shoulder, sharply set off from body; vertical, sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; tall disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom with central nipple. Red clay; red ochre wash; black glaze; semilustrous, whitish slip; matt, red, brown and grey paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; two palmette fans and scrolls on shoulder (almost erased); meander between horizontal bands on body above frieze; on body opposite handle grave stele flanked by two women: the one to the right dressed in red, holding a fillet in her hands, the one to the right dressed in a white and red chiton, holding a box with offerings, two fillets hanging down from the box; base line below figures; groove above base

Data elements
References (5)

Inventory number

NM Ant 2110

Serie nummer

718

Object

lekythos

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

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

Acquisition

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

Description

White-ground lekythos. Cup mouth; tall, narrow neck with concave profile; ridge around neck top; moulding at junction between neck and shoulder; tapering shoulder, sharply set off from body; vertical, sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering towards base; tall disc base with groove around upper edge; concave bottom with central nipple. Red clay; red ochre wash; black glaze; semilustrous, whitish slip; matt, red, brown and grey paint. Inside and outside of mouth (except top), handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder and most part of body white; two palmette fans and scrolls on shoulder (almost erased); meander between horizontal bands on body above frieze; on body opposite handle grave stele flanked by two women: the one to the right dressed in red, holding a fillet in her hands, the one to the right dressed in a white and red chiton, holding a box with offerings, two fillets hanging down from the box; base line below figures; groove above base

Period

Classical

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

5th century BC

Name - Acquired from

Hallin, Axel

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

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current