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Shoulder Lekythos Depicting Nike (?) Pouring from a Patera at an Altar
(Ancient Greece )
This red-figure lekythos depicts Nike. She flies to the right, with arms outstretched, holding a phiale in her right hand, an oval shaped object (possibly a fruit or egg) in her left. Below on the right is an altar with fire on which she pours liquid from the phiale. She wears a chiton, mantle, disc earing, and serpentine bracelets. Ribbons hold her hair in place. Red dots fill much of the picture field; a few to the left of the altar appear to be letters of a nonsense inscription.
Inscription
Provenance
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Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
at shoulder: 10 7/8 x 3 9/16 in. (27.7 x 9.1 cm) (h. x diam.);
at mouth: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm) (diam.);
at foot: 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.257