Object Title
Black-Figure Lekythos
Measurements
20.3 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm
Creation Date
ca. 490 BCE
Credit Line
Gift of Sybil and Ed Ralston in memory of Dr. Leona Delaney Ganaway
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/35074/blackfigure-on-white-ground-lekythos-with-dionysos-riding-a?ctx=228c7ad25a55fe99fa2820ea1d627158e5112340&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
With Galerie Neuendorf/Holger Termer, Hamburg, Germany, November 12 - December 19, 1980, number 8. With Allan Anawati [Medusa Ancient Art], Montreal, Quebec, 2012. Ex private collection, Midwest United States, from 2012. Purchased by donor at Christie's New York, December 9, 2015, lot 24.
Exhibition Information
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany, November 19 - December 19, 1980
Hamburg, Germany, May 29 - August 29, 1986
Kiel, Germany, September 22 - October 24, 1986
Bremen, Germany, December 12, 1986 - January 18, 1987
Hamburg, Germany, May 29 - August 29, 1986
Kiel, Germany, September 22 - October 24, 1986
Bremen, Germany, December 12, 1986 - January 18, 1987
Publication Information
Galerie Neuendorf, Holger Termer Kunst der Antike 2 ( 19 November - 19 Dezember 1980), 27, number 8.
Wilhelm Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz (Hamburg: BATIG-Ges. fur Beteiligungen, 1986), 69, number 28.
Christie's New York, Antiquities (9 December 2015), 25, lot 24.
Wilhelm Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz (Hamburg: BATIG-Ges. fur Beteiligungen, 1986), 69, number 28.
Christie's New York, Antiquities (9 December 2015), 25, lot 24.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
NA