Object name: Lekythos / Object class: Jugs (vessels) / Collection place: Italy - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-9056, described as Lekythos; squat, red figured with palmette; glaze discolored by fire, mouth missing; Diameter 3.3 cm x Ht. 5.5 cm.

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 8-9873, described as small, squat lekythos, decorated with all over net design - black fine lined, with small white dots at each netting juncture; shallow pedestal base. narrow neck is decorated with white perpendicular lines. single handle attaches to shoulder and at middle of neck.

Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-9101, described as Lekythos, squat with red-fired palmettes; handle intact; covered with modern varnish; chip on lip; encrusted. length 7.7 cm x 3.4 cm at base. Material and Techniques: Ceramic, Wheel-turned

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 8-3345, described as Campanian Red-figure squat lekythos; subsidiary ornament entirely repainted; figures, except for the lower portion of Eros (Latin: Cupid), look unretouched; added yellow and white paint; Eros, seated woman with chest or sistrum (see References), and woman with mirror; below, wave pattern; palmette complex at handle; egg-pattern on shoulder; tongues on neck.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Lekythos, accession number 8-9855, described as lekythos; small, black figure lekythos decorated with 2 figures - 1 appears to be sitting, the other reclining, vines turn behind them. base and 2.5cm of body painted black, abrupt shoulder painted with teardrop shaped strokes; bell lip is also painted black. single handle attaches at shoulder and just below lip flare.