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    "localId": "110237",
    "label": "White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Youths at Tomb",
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}

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    "id": "110237",
    "contentType": "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.859",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60754268"
    ],
    "creators": [
        11012
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Attic"
    ],
    "accession": "1928.859"
}

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    "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",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4A88D09D-9575-4A21-BCCB-47D959BFA887"
        },
        {
            "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.",
            "page_number": "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n9"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={4A88D09D-9575-4A21-BCCB-47D959BFA887}&startRef="
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159856"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² &amp; 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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.859",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:51:53.838000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.859/1928.859_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 110237,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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