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Attic White-Ground Lekythos

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The Tymbos Painter specialized in decorating lekythoi in the white-ground technique. In the period around 460 B.C., when he worked in Athens, white-ground lekythoi were used almost exclusively as funerary offerings; the scenes he chose for his vases tended to reflect this function. The Tymbos Painter was not a good draftsman and he was often hasty, as the carelessly drawn bars that cover the shoul

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Date: about 450–440 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Culture: Greek (Attic)
Department: Vessels
Institution: Getty Museum

Woman standing to left. She is crowned with a diadem, and dressed in a chiton and himation. In her outstretched right hand, she holds a tendril. The mouth, handle and body below the picture are black, and the neck, shoulder and inside of the handle are reserved. The disc foot is black above, with part of the side reserved. Black band on interior of mouth at upper edge. Degenerate lotus buds on the shoulder. The picture is framed by pairs of black lines on white ground above and below. Adapted from R. Neer, CVA Malibu 7 (1997).

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