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Source Description
This white-ground lekythos, a large funerary oil vessel, shows three youths at a tomb. The one seated in the center likely represents the deceased, while those standing on either side are mourners. Although much of the pigment is now lost, the strong use of line and three-quarter views have been cited by some scholars as possibly reflecting the lost works of the famous wall-painter Parrhasios.
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Document identity
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110237
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White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Youths at Tomb
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110237
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object
title
White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Youths at Tomb
description
This white-ground lekythos, a large funerary oil vessel, shows three youths at a tomb. The one seated in the center likely represents the deceased, while those standing on either side are mourners. Although much of the pigment is now lost, the strong use of line and three-quarter views have been cited by some scholars as possibly reflecting the lost works of the famous wall-painter Parrhasios.
date
c. 420–400 BCE
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60754268
creators
11012
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)
cul
Greek, Attic
accession
1928.859
Source extras
tec
ceramic
tombstone
White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Youths at Tomb, c. 420–400 BCE. Attributed to Group R (Greek, Attic, active c. 420–410 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1928.859
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
White-ground vases give some idea of the appearance of ancient wall painting.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 217811
citation
Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic White Lekythoi</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938.
page_number
p. 25, pl. VIII (as "Once Geneva, Dr. Hirsch").
citation
Cox, Warren E. <em>The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. </em>New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944.
page_number
Vol. I, p. 59, pl. 15.
citation
Archaeological Institute of America. 1953. "Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art," <em>Archaeology: A Magazine Dealing with the Antiquity of the World,</em> vol. 6.4.
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pp. 195-202 (ill. on p. 198).
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art: Handbook</em>. Cleveland, 1958.
page_number
p.5, fig. 29.
citation
Carter, Martha L. <em>Classical Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5-6; Plate 10
citation
Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, </em>2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
page_number
p. 1383, no. 10.
citation
Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. </em>Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 23, plates 35,2 & 36
citation
Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. <em>Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections.</em> Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced pp. 218-219
citation
Neils, Jenifer. "The Orestes Sarcophagus and Other Classical Marbles." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 4 (1984).
page_number
p. 103, fig. 4
citation
Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. </em>Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.
page_number
p. 372
citation
Beazley, J. D., and Donna C. Kurtz. <em>Greek Vases: Lectures</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
page_number
plate 24
creditline
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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2026-05-29 05:51:53.838000
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110237
dept
Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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male
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