ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE MEIDIAS PAINTER, CIRCA 410-400 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED SQUAT LEKYTHOS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF THE MEIDIAS PAINTER, CIRCA 410-400 B.C.
5 5/16 in. (13.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Pascal & Geladakis, New York.
Acquired by The Toledo Museum of Art from the above, 1917 (Accession no. 1917.135).

Literature

R.M. Riefstahl, "Greek Vases," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, Vol. 11, no. 2, 1968, p. 46.
K.T. Luckner, "Greek Vases: Shapes and Uses," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, Vol. 15, no. 3, 1972, p. 82, figs. 31-32.
C.G. Boulter and K.T. Luckner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fasc. 1, Toledo, 1976, p. 30, pl. 46, fig. 8.
L. Burn, The Meidias Painter, Oxford, 1987, p. 113, no. MM 101.
A. Hamari, "Eros," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Vol. IV, Zurich, 1988, p. 523, no. 126, pl. 314.

Exhibited

Louisville, J.B. Speed Museum, 1981-1982.

Lot Essay

The scene on this vase depicts Eros between a youth and a female. The pair may tentatively be identified as Helen and Paris, the lovers whose liaison sparked the Trojan War. This vase is rare in that it preserves traces of gilding on the ornament and along Eros' wings.

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