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Lekythos with Youth Holding Lances
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineLekythos with Youth Holding Lances. 5th century B.C.. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, William A. Clark Collection. CC0.
