Lekythos [Formerly Museum No. 25]
Athenian Black-Figure, by the Dolphin Group, mid 6th century BC
Painted terracotta (no dimensions)
Painted with a cock and a swan.
A very similar vase (possibly the one from Winchester) was sold at Sotheby’s on 18th October 1965, lot. 203 and was later with Charles Ede Ltd. (July 1991, catalogue no. 21). It is referred to by Dietrich von Bothmer in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol 2 (1969), pp. 38-39.
Literature: J.D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956), p. 457.9; Winchester College Memorial Buildings: Department of Classical Art (Winchester, 1909), p. 15 (no. 25)
Provenance: From Attica, at Winchester College by 1909, stolen from Winchester c. 1965