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Shoulder Lekythos with Woman Holding a Mirror
(Ancient Greece )
This red-figure shoulder lekythos depicts a woman walking to the right, holding out a mirror in her right hand. She wears a chiton, mantle, and earring.
Provenance
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Moise Roussos, Athens, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1924, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P1372]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica (Place of Origin)
Measurements
at shoulder: 6 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (16.8 x 5.4 cm) (h. x diam.);
at mouth: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm) (diam.);
at foot: 1 1/2 in. (3.75 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
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.
48.258