Exaleiptron with Peleus and Thetis (?)

mid 6th century BCE (Archaic)

20.3 cm 9.5 cm

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This curiously shaped vessel is an exaleiptron, a small vessel distinguished by its squat foot and shallow bowl. Exaleiptra take various forms, some with more pronounced feet and others with handles. The form of this vase, the rim curving inward into a deep cylindrical "chimne...

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Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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