It was especially associated with vases made for ritual and funerary use if only because the painted surface was more fragile than in the other main techniques of black figure and red figure vase painting.
Attic white ground lekythos.
Nevertheless a wide range of subjects are depicted.
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For a white ground lekythos by the quadrate painter with another example of the stele with acanthus and bird see the antikensammlung berlin acc.
460 bc and was painted by the achilles painter.
An attic white ground lekythos attributed to the quadrate painter circa 450 430 bc.
It is titled attic white ground lekythos ca.
Its dimensions are h.
490 bc achilles dragging the body ofhector below left.
26 9 cm high attributed to the dessypri painter circa 430 b c.
It was possibly found in athens and is from the attica region and is labeled as early classical.
This athenian white ground lekythos depicts a woman performing these tasks.
The image shown on the lekythos is of two women one a maid and one a mistress.
It was possibly found in athens and is from the attica region and is labeled as early classical.
The images on lekythoi were often depictions of daily activities or rituals.
Relief from a carved funerarylekythos national archaeological museum of athens.
Attic white ground lekythos c.
Attic white ground lekythos painter of athens 1826 greek attic active about 460 450 b c 24 7 8 9 cm 9 3 4 3 1 2 in 86 ae 253 open content images tend to be large in file size.
Spanning barely a century the white ground style developed in athens alongside the red figure technique.
The image shown on the lekythos is of two women one a maid and one a mistress.
These vases of limited production and use are conspicuous in the finesse of their design and also in their extreme fragility.
A lekythos plural lekythoi is a type of ancient greek vessel used for storing oil greek λήκυθος especially olive oil.
490 bc achilles dragging the body of hector the lekythos was used for anointing dead bodies of unmarried women and many lekythoi are found in tombs.
The rounded object behind the woman is the tymbos or grave mound.
Its dimensions are h.
An attic outline white ground lekythos 10 5 8 in.
460 bc and was painted by the achilles painter.
It developed in the region of attica dated to about 500 bc.
F2452 beazley archive vase no.
An exaleiptron a vessel designed to hold perfumed oil sits atop the tymbos which has been decorated with offerings of fillets or ribbons spears and leafy branches.
It has a narrow body and one handle lekythos attic white ground lekythos c.