Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 440 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm), Vases, Warrior departing. The squat lekythos became a significant shape favored by the best Attic painters of the second half of the fifth century B.C., as the pieces in this gallery attest. The shape seems to have been used for red-figure decoration as the standard lekythos was increasingly decorated in the white-ground technique—a development in which the Achilles Painter played a major role
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Terracotta squat lekythos, oil flask, Classical, ca, 440 B.C, Greek, Attic, Terracotta, red-figure, H, 9 5/8, 24.5 cm, Vases, Warrior departing, squat, significant shape, favored, best Attic, painters, second half, fifth century, B.C, pieces, gallery attest, shape seems, red-figure decoration, standard, increasingly decorated, white-ground technique—, development, Achilles Painter, played, major role
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