Object name: Lekythos / Collection place: Central Italy / Culture or time period: Ancient Greece - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1859, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos, dogs. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 17.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 13). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pinkish cream; cream slip; red-brown paint. Shape similar to no. 1858. On lip, three concentric circles; upper half of lip's edge, brown; three stripes on handle; tongues on swelling; narrow and broad bands, divided by reserved lines, down to the middle; then a broad reserved zone, with three narrow bands; at the bottom, between two broad bands, four animals (dogs?) in silhouette, running right. The color of the decoration, due to uneven firing, varies from brown to brownish red. Part of lip broken off. Cf. Montelius, pl. 212, no. 5, from Pitigliano, and pl. 285, no. 22 from Tarquinia; Mon. Ant., XV, 1905, Pl. IX, fig. 16, from Rome; Bull. Com., 1898, Pl. XI, 4, from Rome; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, pl. 5, no. 24.

Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1858, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height: 15.7 cm; diameter: 5.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XIX, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay light cream; pinkish-cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. High, flat-bottomed alabas tron with thick swelling about neck. On lip, a broad violet and a narrow brown circle; edge of lip, solid brown; four stripes on handle; above swelling, tongue pattern; from there, down to the middle of the body, alternated broad brown and narrow violet bands; four animals (hounds?) in silhouette, running right; then more bands, alternately brown and violet. Paint badly peeled off. Cf. Not. Sc., 1878, Pl. IV, 2, from Suessola; Not. Sc., 1902, p. 501, fig. 3, no. 4, from So vana; Not. Sc., 1934, p. 373, fig. 26, no. 3, from Populonia; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 24, from Poggio Buco; Robinson, Toronto Vases, Pl. XI, 154, from Castel d'Asso; Sieve king-Hackl, Pl. XXIX, 736; C.W.A., Louvre, fasc. 9, III C b, Pl. V, 23; C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, III C, pl. 4, no. 36, from Orvieto; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., no. 40.5572.

Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-1793, described as Etrusco-Corinthian lekythos. Description from Matteucig (1951): Alabastron; height; 8.3 cm; diameter; 5 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 12). Italo-Corinthian. Clay pink cream; cream slip; dark brown and violet paint. On lip, three concentric circles, inner two violet, outer one brown; on flat handle, three brown bands; brown tongue pattern on upper side of swelling or fillet; below, alternating brown and violet bands. Decoration faded. Cf. Montelius, pl. 212, no. 10 from Pitigliano; J.d.I., XV, 1900, p. 184, fig. 25 from Poggio Buco.