Collection place: Tuscany, Central Italy / Materials: Ceramic (material) / Loans: S1982-1983 #36: Saint Mary’s College of California (1983–April 29, 1983) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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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.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-4581, described as Attic Red-figure skyphos; some repainting; A, boy and erast, the former with a lyre, the latter holding a strigil and leaning on a stick; B, palaistra: nude youth holding mantle over outstretched arms; erast holding youth’s strigil in right hand, staff in 1.; to left of youth, goal pillar; base strip of maeander and saltire squares; palmette complexes at handles. Height: 19 cm, Width/breadth: 34 cm, Diameter: 23.5 cm