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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos
Brygos Painterabout 480 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
The vase is intact. The shouder is decorated with three palmettes and two lotus buds; petals appear in the breaches of the tendrils. Above, a cyma pattern. On one side of the body, between two encircling meander bands, a Nike in chiton and himation flies to the right carrying a long red fillet. She wears a red fillet around her head.
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Details
- Title: Attic Red-Figure Lekythos
- Creator: Brygos Painter
- Date Created: about 480 B.C.
- Location Created: Athens, Greece
- Physical Dimensions: 23.9 × 8.6 cm (9 7/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
- Type: Lekythos
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Terracotta
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 83.AE.241
- Culture: Greek (Attic)
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Herbert L. Lucas
- Creator Display Name: Attributed to the Brygos Painter (Greek (Attic), active about 490 - 470 B.C.)
- Classification: Vessels (Containers)
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