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Oil flask (lekythos) with the hunter Kephalos and his dog
Greek
Early Classical Period
about 470 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Height: 39.2 cm (15 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession Number13.198
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 097.
DescriptionYoung hunter, standing in front view, right leg in profile to left, face profile to right, wearing tunic, gaiters, chlamys and broad-brimmed petasos, sword in scabbard, holds spear in left. Before him a dog to right. Grafitto under the foot of the vase.
ProvenanceSaid to be from Gela, Italy [see note 1]. 1911, sold by Tommaso and Ignazio Virzi (dealers), Palermo, to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London and Rome; 1913, sold by E. P. Warren to the MFA for $18,948.70 [see note 2]. (Accession Date: January 2, 1913)
NOTES: According to Warren, found in the same grave as MFA accession no. 13.199. [2] Total price paid for MFA accession nos. 13.186 - 13.245. Shipped to Warren in 1911 as "Lekythos--Huntsman" (source: private archive). Many thanks to Erin Thompson for facilitating access to this material.
NOTES: According to Warren, found in the same grave as MFA accession no. 13.199. [2] Total price paid for MFA accession nos. 13.186 - 13.245. Shipped to Warren in 1911 as "Lekythos--Huntsman" (source: private archive). Many thanks to Erin Thompson for facilitating access to this material.