Lekane (shallow dish)

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Lekane (shallow dish)

Artist: Attributed to the Protome Painter

Culture: Greek

Date: ca. 530 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta, black-figure technique

Dimensions:

height: 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 Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number: 86.134.28

Provenance: sold 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, 1986

Published References Karl 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

Label Text

Exterior: 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]

Not on view

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Lekane (shallow dish)

Lekane (shallow dish)