Greek
An Attic white-ground lekythos, attributed to the Sabouroff Painter, Classical, circa 470 - 440 BC
Pottery
Height: 33 cm
Further images
The lekythos depicts a woman presenting an alabastron in her right hand, whilst holding a long horizontal basket adorned with ribbons in her left. On the left side of the...
The lekythos depicts a woman presenting an alabastron in her right hand, whilst holding a long horizontal basket adorned with ribbons in her left. On the left side of the vase a young man places his foot on the base of a stele as he ties fillets around it. Palmettes and volutes decorate the shoulder, with a band of meander at the top of the body.
Provenance
Raphaël Collin (1850 - 1916) Collection, ParisSenator William A. Clark (1839 - 1925) Collection, acquired from the above in 1911
Bequeathed to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1925, accession no. 26.677
Deaccessioned and gifted to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., 2014
Exhibitions
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., The William A. Clark Collection, 26 April - 16 July 1978.Literature
The Sabouroff Painter was named by Beazley after the former owner of a nuptial lebes gamikos now in Berlin (Antikensammlung acc. no. F2404.) The artist favoured painting cups and lekythoi, but also decorated a variety of other shapes. For further examples see pp. 837 ff. in J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, 1963. The Sabouroff Painter worked in white-ground and red-figure, however it is his white-ground lekythoi that are among some of finest works. For a similar example see, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 51.11.4: Beazley op.cit., p. 847, no. 203.Publications
R. Collin, Collection of Antique Grecian, Egyptian and Etruscan Statuettes, Vases, Tanagras, Etc., Paris, 1911, p. 25, no. 175.Original Clark Catalogue, Part II, p. 250, no. 181.
The Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1928, p. 117, no. 2677 (and in the 1932 edition of the same name).