Lekane (shallow dish)
Place made:Greece
Culture: Greek
Date: ca. 530 B.C.
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
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]
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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