The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 24, 2024
White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Mourners at Tomb
c. 400s BCE, with modern painting
Location: not on view
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Both stylistic and technical studies suggest that this vase is not wholly ancient.Description
In its basic shape and decorative scheme—three figures before a stepped tomb marker—this lekythos resembles hundreds of funerary vessels made in Athens during the fifth century (400s) BC. But unusual features of the painted decoration, including the multicolored palmettes on the shoulder, and the shoes worn by the youth, suggest a modern intervention. Zinc found in analysis of the white ground is also likely modern, although the vessel itself may be ancient.- ?-1926Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1927-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- R. H. "Orestes Sarcophagus and Greek Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 4 (1928). Illustrated p. 86, mentioned p. 91.
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.434