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Lekythos Attributed to the Circle of the Phiale Painter in the Getty Villa, June 2016

Lekythos Attributed to the Circle of the Phiale Painter in the Getty Villa, June 2016
Title: Attic Red-Figure Lekythos

Artist/Maker: Circle of Phiale Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 450 - 425 B.C.)

Culture: Greek (Attic)

Place: Athens, Greece, Europe (Place created)

Date: about 450 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta

Object Number: 86.AE.250

Dimensions: 31.6 × 10.5 cm (12 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

Alternate Titles: Oil Jar with a Woman at Her Toilette (Display Title)

Object Type: Lekythos

This red-figure lekythos captures an intimate moment of a woman at her toilette. The nude woman glances back over her shoulder, momentarily turning her gaze from contemplating herself in the mirror. The unknown vase-painter included familiar household items, such as the small chest at the left and the kalathos, or wool basket, at the right. Scenes of a woman at her toilette are found in Athenian vase-painting from the early 500s B.C. on, but the women are usually clothed. The portrayal of this woman as nude may indicate that she is a hetaira, or prostitute. The use of added white paint for the woman's flesh--an unusual choice in red-figure pottery of the mid-400s B.C.--further emphasizes her nudity. This vase did not fire properly in the kiln. Much of its surface is a red-brown, rather than the standard deep black of Athenian pottery. The side of the lekythos to the right of the woman even has a "ghost" of a meander pattern band caused by touching another vase during firing.


Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/12025/circle-of-phiale-painter-attic-red-figure-lekythos-greek-attic-about-450-bc

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