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Lekane (shallow dish)

Artist Attributed to the Protome Painter

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art

CultureGreek

Dateca. 530 B.C.

MediumTerracotta, black-figure technique

Dimensionsheight: 2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)
diameter of rim: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
diameter with handles: 12 15/16 in. (32.9 cm)
diameter of foot: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)

Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number86.134.28

Geography

Place madeGreece

DescriptionA black-figure lekane (a shallow dish) on a circular foot with a vertical rim. A pair of small handles are attached at the rim on either side, and are flanked by projecting handle spurs. Around the exterior are two groups of three animals each, one with a siren between a panther and a lion, the other with a ram between a panther and a lion. Between the animals' legs are incised rosettes. The interior is badly worn; in the central tondo is a lion.Label TextExterior: Animal frieze Interior: Lion The Protome Painter was one of the most prolific Boeotian vase painters known, and seems to have specialized in decorating lekanai during the third quarter of the sixth century B.C. This lekane, decorated with an animal frieze on its exterior and a lion on the interior tondo, presents a good example of the animal style favored by the artist. [G. D. Scott, III, 2002]Provenancesold by Nanette Kelekian (1926-), New York, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1982; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986Published ReferencesKarl Kilinski II, Boeotian Black-Figure Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Mainz 1990) Protome Painter no. 27, pl. 26, 5

H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) pp. 64-5, no. 24

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Culture: Chinese

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