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Vase Catalog Number: Bowdoin 1913.11Images | Browse Images
Essay: Buitron No. 75
RED-FIGURE LEKYTHOS Lent by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; gift of E. P. Warren (1913.11) Intact. From Gela. Dancing girl and mistress. At the left a young girl, shown nude except for crossed straps on her chest, performs a dance step. Her hair is tied up behind, and she wears hoop earrings. In the field to the left a fillet is suspended. At the right is the dancing mistress wearing chiton, himation, and jewelry: leafed diadem, pendant necklace, hoop earrings, and meander bracelet. She holds the staff of a dancing mistress (also used by other teachers), the narthex or giant fennel stalk. At the base of the scene, a strip of simple rightward key; above, triple rightward meanders alternating with saltires; on the shoulder, palmettes, volutes, and dots; on the neck, egg pattern. Dilute glaze: edges of hair, necklace, and bracelet of dancing mistress, anatomical markings.Attributed to the Phiale Painter [Beazley] ca. 330 B. C. The Phiale Painter takes his name from a phiale in Boston ( Keywords: bracelet, chiton, Dancing, diadem, earrings, fillet, himation, leaf, maiden, naked, necklace, staff, woman
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