Terracotta Squat Lekythos Attributed to the Washing Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010

Title: Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)

Medium; Technique: Terracotta; red-figure

Culture: Greek, Attic

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 430 B.C.

Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Washing Painter

Dimensions: H. 3 9/16 in. (9 cm) diameter 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1930

Accession Number: 30.11.8


Description:

Woman dressing

This charming, intimate vignette shows a woman who has already done her hair and put on a necklace and thigh band. Behind her stands a large plemochoe, a vase for scented oil. She lifts her chiton from the chair, which is provided with a pillow and, in the background, a footstool.

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