Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet
Late Archaic
ceramics
Animals in tales and myths
lekythos
1.3.0 2026-08-16 lekythos Rådata 3100351 objekt Statens museer för världskultur - Medelhavsmuseet SMVK-MM Föremål http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3100351 NM Ant 1699 White-ground lekythos. Small cup mouth; splaying neck; sloping shoulder, sharply set off from body; sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base with sloping edge; concave bottom. Red clay; red ochre wash; white slip; black glaze; added red. Inside and outside of mouth (top excluded), neck, outside of handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder reserved with vertical bars between thin lines and five black palmette fans and tendrils with buds and dots; on body (right below shoulder) double row of dots between bands and large frieze on white ground: three dancing satyrs (the one in the centre playing the double pipe), ivy branches, a cornucopia and a large, pointed amphora - added red and incised lines marking details; two, superimposed, red bands below frieze. NM Ant 1699, Gift in 1921 to the National Museum, Stockholm, from the Friends of the National Museum., A lekythos (pl. lekythoi) is generally a taller, cylindrical vessel with a small, deep mouth, narrow neck and a single handle. However, many variants of the shape do exist, including the rounded, squat form and the ovoid “Deianeira” form, all in various sizes. They were used for the storage of oils and are especially associated with funerary contexts. Towards the end of the fourth century BC they were functionally replaced by the unguentaria., Urval Galleriet., Mouth and body chipped. Some paint gone., H 22.0. Ø of mouth 4.1. Ø of base 5.0., “Djur i sagor och myter” (Animals in tales and myths), June - December 1997. Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, November 22, 1996 - May 20, 1997., Athena Painter., Picasso och Medelhavets myter (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm 1997, cat.n°140., Black-figure, Study Gallery, Djur i sagor och myter, Study Gallery - Showcase 14:13., 1996.0001, Moderna Museet Brukad Late Archaic Ägd Nationalmuseum, Stockholm image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3647839/representation https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3647838/representation http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Kaneberg, Ove Statens museer för världskultur image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3647843/representation https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3647842/representation http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Kaneberg, Ove Statens museer för världskultur image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3647847/representation https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3647846/representation http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Kaneberg, Ove Statens museer för världskultur image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3647851/representation https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3647850/representation http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Kaneberg, Ove Statens museer för världskultur image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3647855/representation https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3647854/representation http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Kaneberg, Ove Statens museer för världskultur image/jpeg https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3647859/representation https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3647858/representation http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#by Kaneberg, Ove Statens museer för världskultur http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3926446 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3926447 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3926448 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3926449 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3926450 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3926451 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953768 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3957573 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953688 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3100351 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3100351 http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3100351
Description
White-ground lekythos. Small cup mouth; splaying neck; sloping shoulder, sharply set off from body; sliced handle from neck to shoulder; cylindrical body, tapering downwards; disc base with sloping edge; concave bottom. Red clay; red ochre wash; white slip; black glaze; added red. Inside and outside of mouth (top excluded), neck, outside of handle, lower body and base top black; shoulder reserved with vertical bars between thin lines and five black palmette fans and tendrils with buds and dots; on body (right below shoulder) double row of dots between bands and large frieze on white ground: three dancing satyrs (the one in the centre playing the double pipe), ivy branches, a cornucopia and a large, pointed amphora - added red and incised lines marking details; two, superimposed, red bands below frieze.
Inventory number
NM Ant 1699
Acquisition
Gift in 1921 to the National Museum, Stockholm, from the Friends of the National Museum.
Comments
A lekythos (pl. lekythoi) is generally a taller, cylindrical vessel with a small, deep mouth, narrow neck and a single handle. However, many variants of the shape do exist, including the rounded, squat form and the ovoid “Deianeira” form, all in various sizes. They were used for the storage of oils and are especially associated with funerary contexts. Towards the end of the fourth century BC they were functionally replaced by the unguentaria.
Urval Galleriet.
Condition
Mouth and body chipped. Some paint gone.
Dimensions
H 22.0. Ø of mouth 4.1. Ø of base 5.0.
Exhibitions
“Djur i sagor och myter” (Animals in tales and myths), June - December 1997. Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, November 22, 1996 - May 20, 1997.
Cf Publications
Athena Painter.
Publications
Picasso och Medelhavets myter (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm 1997, cat.n°140.
Pottery Ware
Black-figure
Utställning / ingår i
Study Gallery
Exhibition / Previously
Djur i sagor och myter
Exhibition, Part of / Current
Study Gallery - Showcase 14:13.
Loan out / Previously
Name / Loantaker
Moderna Museet
Material, engelska
Earthenware
Clay
Pottery
Material
Keramik
Height / Höjd
Diameter
Object
Brukad
Ägd
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Kaneberg, Ove
Statens museer för världskultur