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Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Nike

Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Nike

The Aischines Painter (attributed to)

This oil jar shows the winged victory goddess Nike flying to the right, holding a wreath or sash to bestow on a winner.
Artist
The Aischines Painter (attributed to)
(Greek, Attic, active ca. 475-ca. 450 B.C.E.)
Title
Oil Jar (Lekythos) with Nike
Date
ca. 475-450 B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Herbert M. Howe
Accession No.
1978.1178
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Greece

Related

August 1936, sold by K. Adam (Athens, Greece) to Herbert M. Howe Sr. (Madison, WI); 1971, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center; December 1978, gifted by Herbert M. Howe Sr. (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff 27 December 2022]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. p. 59, no. 38
  • Beazley, J.D. "Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters." 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. p. 709, no. 2
  • Classical Art Research Centre. University of Oxford. "Beazley Archive Pottery Database.": https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/15C4DFC7-A331-40D0-A229-45EA534D7F1D. no. 208580
  • Carpenter, Thomas H. "Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena." Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 281, no. 208580

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