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Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Nike

Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Nike

The Painter of Palermo 4 (attributed to)

The scene on this jar for carrying and storing household oil shows the winged Nike (Victory) offering in her outstretched arms a fillet, the symbol of a successful contestant.
Artist
The Painter of Palermo 4 (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 450-420 B.C.E.)
Title
Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Nike
Date
ca. 480-470 B.C.E.
Period
Hellenistic period
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
11 7/16 x 3 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
1976.143
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

Ars Antiqua AG (Lucerne, Switzerland); June 1966, sold by Ars Antiqua AG (Lucerne, Switzerland) to Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank (Milwaukee, WI); 18 January 1971, deposited on long-term loan by Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank at the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 16 December 1976, gifted by Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff 4 February 2022]

  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1976-1977." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1977. p. 66
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 57, no. 36
  • Moon, Warren G, and Louise Berge. "Greek Vase-painting In Midwestern Collections." Chicago: The Art Institute, 1979. pp. 180-181, no. 102
  • Sweet, Harvey. "A Greek Lekythos and a Roman Season Sarcophagus in the Elvehjem Art Center." [Ph.D. diss.] University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972.
  • Beazley, J.D.. "Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase Painters." Oxford, 1971.
  • Classical Art Research Centre. University of Oxford. "Beazley Archive Pottery Database.": https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/15C4DFC7-A331-40D0-A229-45EA534D7F1D. no. 352528
  • Carpenter, Thomas H. "Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena." Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 213

  • Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, 12/22/1979–2/24/1980

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