Description

A beautiful small attic red-figure lekythos. On one side a dancing woman, or perhaps a child, in chiton or himation. 

A lekythos is a type of Greek pottery used to store perfumed oil to be used to anoint the body. 

Culture

Greek, Attic

Dating

c. 400 - 500 B.C.

Size

6 cm

Provenance

Dutch private collection. 

J.Bagot Ancient Art, Barcelona, Spain

Heirs of D. Wray Forshaw

Collection of Captain D. Wray Forshaw (South Africa and USA) from at least 1922. Brought from Greece by Captain D. Wray Forshaw.

Published

The Bulawayo Chronicle, Saturday March 14 1959. Copy of newspaper page with photo of this lekythos available.

Exhibited

National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe (formerly known as Rhodesia, a former British Colony), 1959.

Borough of Chelmsform, Public Library and Museum, from June 6 1922.

Chelmsford Museum, Essex, Great Britain from 1930.

Other relevant provenance 

Extensive communication between Captain D.W. Forshaw, the Chelmsford Museum and the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. Interesting documents about transferring objects from one museum to the other museum, cleaning salt encrustations, and how the exhibition went. Letters dating from 1956 to 1959. In a letter dating 24th March 1956 D.W. Forshaw mentions that the then curator of the British Museum authenticated his collection. 

Also communication between the heirs of D.W. Forshaw and Sotheby's in New York about a part of the collection. Dating from 1982 and 1999. 

An old picture of this female head available. Also pictures from the rest of his collection available.

Condition

Great condition, small area retouched paint on the rim of the neck.