Donor: Phoebe Apperson Hearst / Accession number: Acc.103 / Loans: S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Donor Phoebe Apperson Hearst Accession number Acc.103 Loans S1982-1983 #3: Crocker Art Museum (October 20, 1982–March 28, 1983)

Hearst Museum object titled Plastic lekythos, accession number 8-1796, described as East Greek (probably Rhodian) plastic lekythos in form of bust of young girl; orifice broken off; pinkish-buff clay; no slip; details in brownish black paint; figure wears earrings and chiton. Description from Matteucig (1951): Plastic Lekythos; height; 10.2 cm; depth 5.5 cm; width, 6.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 17). “Gorgoneion" fabric. Bust of a young man. Clay, pinkish buff; some mica particles. No slip. Sheen on surface is the result of thin wash of glaze; where applied as dark paint, the glaze, which varies from brownish to black according to thickness, is not very lustrous. Orifice broken off. For a more detailed description and excellent illustrations of this piece see Professor H. R. W. Smith's account in C.W.A., University of California, fasc. 1, p. 55 and Pl. LVII, 1a–d. For the “Gorgoneion” group of East Greek plastic vases, cf. Maximova, pp. 174–175 and Pls. XXII-XXV, especially Pl. XXIV, 95a-b; C.W.A., France, fasc. 10, Bibl. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 93, 9–12; C.V.A., Copenhagen Mus. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 81, 1; Albizzati, pl. 9, 112; E. R. Price, East Greek Pottery, p. 37 ff.: C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, p. 85, pl. 7. British Museum no. 47.86.36, is perhaps the closest parallel to our specimen. For a full-length figure of this fabric, see H. Stuart Jones, The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Oxford, 1926, p. 197, pl. 76, no. 20: this piece was reviewed by Professor J. D. Beazley inJ.H.S., XLVII, 1927, p. 146 and dated to the end of the seventh century.