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Attic Vases : Attic Red-Figure Lekythos Portraying a Frolicking Hare
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Attic Red-Figure Lekythos Portraying a Frolicking Hare - DG.058
Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: 500
BC
to 400
BC
Dimensions:
2.02" (5.1cm) high
Collection: Classical
Style: Attic
Medium: Terracotta
Condition: Extra Fine
$7,500.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
This playful vessel depicts a prancing hare on a
red platform. Hares were sometimes associated
with fertility in antiquity and in Greek culture
they had a particular link with the Goddess
Artemis. Daughter of Zeus and Leto, she was
known as Mistress of the Animals and was often
depicted holding hares by their front or back
paws. The historian Xenophon also records that
new-born hares captured by hunters were not
killed but left to the goddess. Thus, the fertile
hare served as an attribute and messenger of
Artemis. This lekythos, or oil container, is
striking for the simplicity of the design, clearly
executed rapidly but skillfully by the ancient
craftsman.
- (DG.058)
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