This Greek pottery, Lekythos Vase is a first-class museum duplicate definitely hand-crafted with the white floor approach. The portray represents historical Greek women, the only retaining an Exaliptron and the alternative one retaining a basket with wishes. In historical Greek pottery, Lekythos vase, plural Lekythoi, changed into an oil vessel with a protracted cylindrical frame and a skinny neck with a handle. It changed into utilized in baths and gyms in addition to for burial gifts. The call seems to had been utilized by the historical Athenians to consult any tiny oil flask. Around 590 BCE, the lekythos appeared, embellished withinside the black-parent approach. The crimson-parent approach changed into sporadically applied from about 530 BCE, however till approximately 480 BCE, the bulk of lekythoi have been nonetheless embellished in black-parent. Then round 440 BCE, emerged a brand new approach wherein lekythoi have been painted with a white foundation and figurative scenes.
This fashion is famous in a big wide variety of places. Because the white floor paint changed into brittle and now no longer appropriate for heavy usage, a amazing wide variety of this fashion are documented, on the whole from Athenian cemeteries. Totally glazed black lekythoi and crimson parent ones remained the maximum long lasting paperwork for ordinary usage.
Ancient greek art Handmade museum replica, Ceramic Vases, Greek pottery
๐ Type: White ground, Archaic-Classical
๐ Circa: 440 BC
๐Condition: New, handmade in Greece
๐ Materials: Ceramic
๐ Dimensions: Width 12 cm (4.72 inches)-Height 39 cm (15.35 inches) lid included
๐ Weight: 1,9 kilos (4.18 pounds)