About the Artwork
Lekythos
late 6th century BC
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Greek
Unknown
Black-figure ware
height x diameter: 3 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.6 x 5.5 cm)
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
City of Detroit Purchase
24.236
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Provenance
found on Malta
Gotha, Collection of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Gotha, Collection Herzog Albert Ernest Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha [Collection placed on deposit--Gotha, Schloss Friedenstein, no. H. A. 145], from whom purchased by the DIA in 1924.
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Madigan, B., Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts, (Monumenta Graeca et Romana), vol. 12, Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 35, cat. 43, fig. 67 (attributed to the Cock Group).
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Greek, Lekythos, late 6th century BC, Black-figure ware. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.236.
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