Youth in red cloak
Maiden carrying duck, from the waist up
Side A (handle left)
Side B-B: handle front
Side A: oblique view from right
Grave stele, upper portion, and duck head on left
| Collection: | Johns Hopkins University Museum, Baltimore |
| Summary: | Grave stele flanked by girl and young man |
| Ware: | Attic Red Figure, White Ground |
| Painter: | Attributed to the Group of the Bird Painter |
| Date: | ca. 440 BC - 420 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.287 m., D. mouth 0.058 m., D. foot 0.052 m. |
| Primary Citation: | |
| Shape: | Lekythos |
| Period: | High Classical |
Decoration Description:
Color of figure scene and ornament fired red. A maiden, seen in right profile, carries a duck in her extended hands and approaches a grave stele on stepped base. On the other side of the stele is a youth in left profile with his right arm extended. He is draped in a red cloak.
The upper surface of the lip is reserved. On the shoulder beneath a single line is a palmette scheme of three five-petal palmettes entwined in volutes. The central palmette is inverted; the other two are turned toward the handle. The upper border of the picture consists of a meander grouped in threes, alternately leftward and rightward, separated by saltire squares. Two lines run above and beneath. There is a single line under picture.
Essay:
Collection History:
Gift of Blanche Adler, purchased in 1926 from Joseph Brummer.
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