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Athena Painter

Lekythos

525–500 BC

On View in Stair Gallery

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  • Artist Athena Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–475 BC)
  • Title Lekythos
  • Date 525–500 BC
  • Medium Earthenware
  • Dimensions unframed | 12 x 4 1/8 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Robert Brookings and Charles Parsons, 1904
  • Object number WU 3279
  • Currently on View Stair Gallery

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/10/2017 - 03/19/2017

Picturing Narrative: Greek Mythology in the Visual Arts
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/12/2014 - 01/04/2015

The Persistence of Myth
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/04/2012 - 08/12/2012

Serious Drinking: Vases of the Greek Symposium
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/22/2008 - 01/05/2009

1904
Robert Brookings and Charles Parsons

Inscription [on base, in red ink:] WU 3279

Inscription [on base, in blue ink, underlined:] 52

Inscription [rectangular white label residue]

Inscription [on base, in pencil:] 11

Inscription [scratched into base:] Corinth / James Bindley [on base, in pencil and scratched in:] Bought of Mr / J Bindley / 30 august / HE

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