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Campanian oil jug (lekythos)
Painter: Valencia
Greek, South Italian
Early Hellenistic Period
about 320–310 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Campania
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
19.3 cm (7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.829
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 091.
DescriptionA large female head looks to the left, with the hair in a sakkos decorated with black stripes and dots and crowned by a yellow wreath. The woman's face is in added white. Her features are well drawn, with downturned mouth, hooked nostrils, and alert eyes. She wears a chiton but no jewelry.
There are tall, coiling tendrills on the sides and a large palmette on the reverse. A tall band of tongues cirlces the lower neck. A reserved stripe circles the lower body. The groove on the foot is painted white; that between foot and body is reserved.
ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #91 (03.829)
Attributed to the Valencia Group
320-310 B.C.
A large female head looks to the left, with the hair in a sakkos decorated with black stripes and dots and crowned by a yellow wreath. The woman's face is in added white. Her features are well drawn, with downturned mouth, hooked nostrils, and alert, querying eyes. She wears a chiton but no jewelry.
There are tall, coiling tendrils on the sides and a large palmette on the reverse. A tall band of tongues circles the lower neck. A reserved stripe cicles the lower body. The groove on the foot is painted white; that between foot and body is reserved.
The head vases of the Valencia Group are among the minor works produced in the workshop of the Ixion Painter. Trendall compared this head to that on a chous in St. Petersburg (inv. 2441: Trendall, LCS, p. 345, no. 863).
There are tall, coiling tendrills on the sides and a large palmette on the reverse. A tall band of tongues cirlces the lower neck. A reserved stripe circles the lower body. The groove on the foot is painted white; that between foot and body is reserved.
ITALIAN VASE PAINTING in ITALY, #91 (03.829)
Attributed to the Valencia Group
320-310 B.C.
A large female head looks to the left, with the hair in a sakkos decorated with black stripes and dots and crowned by a yellow wreath. The woman's face is in added white. Her features are well drawn, with downturned mouth, hooked nostrils, and alert, querying eyes. She wears a chiton but no jewelry.
There are tall, coiling tendrils on the sides and a large palmette on the reverse. A tall band of tongues circles the lower neck. A reserved stripe cicles the lower body. The groove on the foot is painted white; that between foot and body is reserved.
The head vases of the Valencia Group are among the minor works produced in the workshop of the Ixion Painter. Trendall compared this head to that on a chous in St. Petersburg (inv. 2441: Trendall, LCS, p. 345, no. 863).
ProvenanceBy 1903: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: The following objects [MFA 03.805-03.833, 03.836-03.837, 03.906] were found in one cemetery in Campania.); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, March 24, 1903