Attic Red-Figure Lekythos

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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos

Creator

Brygos Painter

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Working in Athens in the early 400s B.C., the Brygos Painter was a prolific decorator of red-figure cups. Over two hundred vases have been attributed to him, including a limited number of shapes other than cups and some vessels in the white-ground technique. Having learned his craft from Onesimos, the Brygos Painter was himself quite influential and was the center of a large circle of painters. Th

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Date
about 480 B.C.
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Greek (Attic)
Department
Vessels
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
64b2a0af-86b6-4ba8-b008-e8ac829674c1

The vase is intact. The shouder is decorated with three palmettes and two lotus buds; petals appear in the breaches of the tendrils. Above, a cyma pattern. On one side of the body, between two encircling meander bands, a Nike in chiton and himation flies to the right carrying a long red fillet. She wears a red fillet around her head.

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