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Artworks
Attr. Beldam Painter
ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS OF 'CHIMNEY' TYPE, Greece, circa 500-460 B.C.height 20.3 cm
height 8 inFurther images
The scene portrays a maenad playing a flute, surrounded by two dancing satyrs. The vase, of the lekythos type, originally used to contain perfumed oils, is decorated on the body...The scene portrays a maenad playing a flute, surrounded by two dancing satyrs. The vase, of the lekythos type, originally used to contain perfumed oils, is decorated on the body with concentric bands and a meander band above, while the neck is adorned with two bands of dotted rays.
A similar lekythos by the Beldam Painter with two dancing satyrs can be found in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 6th cent. no. 3057.310; Beazley Archive no. 306887.Provenance
Emmanuel Segradakis (1890-1948) collection, Paris
Private collection, Oxford
Private collection, London, acquired 2010Publications
Beazley Archive no. 390585
C. Haspels, Attic Black-figured Lekythoi, Paris, 1936, p. 269, no. 65
