About the Artwork
Lekythos
mid-5th century BCE
Attributed to Karlsruhe Painter
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Greek
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Red-figure ware
Overall: 8 × 2 3/4 inches (20.3 × 7 cm) Overall (diam of mouth): 1 1/2 inches (3.8 cm) Overall (diam of foot): 1 15/16 inches (5 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
24.121
Public Domain
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Provenance
found in (Athens, Greece);collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany);
collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany);
(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany);
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Beazley, J. D. Attic Red-figure Painters. Oxford, 1942, p. 731, no. 16 [attr. to the Karlsruhe Painter].
Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 55, cat. 69, (fig. 100).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
attributed to Karlsruhe Painter, Lekythos, mid-5th century BCE, red-figure ware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.121.
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