Baltimore, Hopkins BMA 41.133
White-Ground Lekythos
440-420 B.C.
41.133. (P.2468 on underside of foot.) Baltimore Museum of Art, gift
of Blanche Adler. Ht, 28.7 cm; diam mouth, 5.8 cm; diam foot, 5.2 cm. Chipped
all over.
Color of figure scene and ornament fired red. Nude maiden, seen in
right profile, carries a duck in her extended hands and approaches a grave stele
on stepped base. On other side of stele is youth in left profile with right arm
extended. He is draped in a red cloak.
Upper surface of lip reserved. On shoulder beneath single line is
palmette scheme of three five-petal palmettes entwined in volutes. Central
palmette inverted, other two turned toward handle. Upper border of picture
consists of meander grouped in threes, alternately leftward and rightward,
separated by saltire squares. Two lines above and beneath. Single line under
picture.
Like the previous example, this lekythos can also be attributed to an
artist of the Bird Group, a workshop headed by the Bird Painter, whose work this
vessel particularly recalls, both in the configuration of the palmette pattern
and in the less emphatic poignancy of the representation.
1 In contrast to the maiden on the preceding vase, the figure on our
example has more delicate features, with a shorter face and a more subtly
rounded profile of the nose.
2
