COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1926.553
AMICA Library Year:
2003
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Nationality:
Greece, early 4th Century BC
Creator Name-CRT:
Greece, early 4th Century BC
Title:
Squat Lekythos (Oil Jug)
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Detail
Creation Date:
400-375 BC
Creation Start Date:
-400
Creation End Date:
-375
Materials and Techniques:
red-figure terracotta
Classification Term:
Ceramic
Style or Period:
Greece, early 4th Century BC
Dimensions:
Overall: 11.7cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1926.553
Credit Line:
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Context:
Miniature vessels were probably made strictly as tomb offerings. At this later period of red-figure, artists applied quite a bit of additional pigment, here white, brown and blue.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1926.553det01.tif
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