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Attic white-ground side palmettes lekythos.

Fired earthenware.

Athens, ca. 480 BC.

Height: 15cm.

Condition: Excellent. Part of the handle restored. Right lower arm partly erased. Minor retouch improvements on the side palmettes.

This charming vessel depict a lady holding a plemochoe with her left and a ribbon with her right hand. Attributed by Schauenburg to the Vlasto-Group.

Cf. ARV 303, 6 for a Vlasto-Group vase in Oxford. Also, CVA Kiel 1, Pl. 44.

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CL0010 - Attic white-ground side palmettes lekythos
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