Greek red-figure miniature lekythos, Athens, c.400 BC
Terracotta
Height: 9.5cm
8554
Further images
Greek red-figure miniature lekythos with Eros and Aphrodite. Decorated in red figure with considerable use of added white and traces of relief slip. A seated woman gazes back over her...
Greek red-figure miniature lekythos with Eros and Aphrodite. Decorated in red figure with considerable use of added white and traces of relief slip. A seated woman gazes back over her shoulder at Eros who advances offering a goose. Palmettes and florals beneath the handle, bands of ovolo above and below the main composition. Intact, the surface with several minor chips to the glaze.
Provenance
Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), St. Nicholas-les-Arras, France; collection no.218In cursive text to the underside in pencil '19712'
Bellon was a keen supporter of the arts throughout his life. He was an amateur archaologist and amassed a vast collection of antiquities. He numbered among his friends artists such as Dutilleux, Carot and Daguerre.
Literature
Compare a larger variant Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Brussels 2 (Brussels, 1937), pl.82, no.3a2
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