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White-ground lekythos: two women

attributed to the Achilles Painter

y1964-108 a-c

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Object Number

y1964-108 a-c

Maker

Achilles Painter

Medium

Ceramic

Dates

ca. 450–440 B.C.

Dimensions

h. 32.0 cm, diam. 11.4 cm (12 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)

Culture

Greek, Attic

Credit Line

Gift of Edward Sampson, Class of 1914, for the Alden Sampson Collection

Type

lekythoi, ceramics

Subject

women, Saint Andrew's crosses, palmettes, running ornament, figures (representations), meanders (patterns)

Materials

slip, ceramic, glaze

Given to the Museum by Edward Sampson

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261327847

Arthur Fairbanks, Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907). , p. 218; cat. no. 39

2397 1907

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774350

"Acquisitions of 1964", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24, no. 1 (1965): p. 20-23., p. 23

1864 1965

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2542392

Joan R. Mertens, Attic white-ground: its development on shapes other than Lekythoi, (New York: Garland Press, 1997)., p. 210 and note 54

2398 1977

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14244748

Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 55 (illus.)

1899 1986

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468175548

John Howard Oakley, The Achilles Painter, (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997)., cat. no. 201, p. 141, pl. 107c

2383 1997