Art Institute of Chicago
Lekanis (Covered Dish)
Greek; AthensLinkedCulture matchlcp-96247048df89
- Date
- 450-430 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, black-glaze
- Culture
- Greece
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 256
The shape of this lekanis—a low, lidded bowl resting on a broad foot with ribbon-like handles projecting from its sides—is typical, but its large size and lack of figural decoration are unusual. Frequently this type of vessel was decorated with marriage scenes, but this example is almost entirely covered with shiny black gloss, except for a horizontal band of vertical zigzags on the bowl and a band of rays at the base of the bowl and on the lid. Several thin, dark-red bands also encircle the vessel.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Provenance
- Said to be from Santa Maria di Capua, 1880 [Old Register at the Art Institute of Chicago]. Pio Marinangeli, Rome; sold to the Art Institute of Chciago, 1889; price reimbursed by Charles Hutchinson, 1889.
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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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