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- Lékané with red female figures
Orange and brown terracotta…
See original version (French)
139
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- Lékané with red female figures
Orange and brown terracotta…
See original version (French)
Estimate €250 - €350
Voluntary lot
Description
- Lékané
with red female figures
Orange and brown terracotta.
Lid broken and stuck, chips inside the neck.
Magna Graecia, 4th century BC
H: 8 cm; D: 13 cm
Provenance: Maïtres Boisgirard &Heeckeren sale, Paris, 19/11/76, lot no. 40
The lekane is a container with a lid used in the Greek world to store perfumes, jewellery or ointments, often associated with women. In the 4th century BC, workshops in Magna Graecia - the area of southern Italy colonised by the Greeks - produced a richly iconographic red-figure pottery, drawing on both mythological repertory and scenes of everyday feminine life. The scroll decoration and the female figure on the lid are part of this tradition.
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