About the Artwork
Lekythos
between 440 and 430 BCE
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Greek
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Overall (diam of foot): 6 1/4 × 3 1/8 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/8 inches (15.9 × 7.9 × 7.3 × 5.4 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
24.118
Public Domain
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Provenance
1871, found near the Dipylon Gate (Athens, Greece);collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Gotha, Germany);
collection placed on deposit (Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany), no. 60;
(Herzogliches Museum, Gotha, Germany);
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Madigan, B. "Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts." In Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 12. Leiden/Boston, 2008, pp. 60-61, cat. 80, (fig. 110) [attributed to the Quadrate Painter].
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Greek, Lekythos, between 440 and 430 BCE. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.118.
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