Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances
date: label: Date
content: 5th century B.C.
notes: label: Description
content: Ovoid body with tall neck, flaring mouth and curved handle leading to flat shoulder; raised circular foot. Central scene in red-brown on white ground of a youth at a tumulus, wearing petasos (traveling hat), boots and chlamys (traveling cloak), and holding two lances; Greek key pattern above scene, black band below; shoulder decorated with tongues and rays.
place: label: made in
content: Greece
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, William A. Clark Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2018-50-60
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Lekythos
label: Type
content: Lekythos
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Terracotta with painted decoration
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 23.2 × 7.9 cm (9 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)