Vases Lebes with Cover and Stand
Lebes with Cover and Stand
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Lebes with Cover and Stand

600 BCE-550 BCE
Lebes, lid, and stand are all separate pieces. All are of a coarse yellowish-buff fabric with many inclusions and have a brick-red slip with decoration in white, yellow, and black. Large lebes is cauldron-shaped. The flat rim is encircled by worn black and white bands. The body of the vessel is decoraed with a faded frieze of six running hounds, four of which run to the right, two to the left. The figures appear to have been outlined and detailed in black and then filled with white and/or yellow. The lid is decorated with alternating black and white concentric circles. Its knob is black. The stand is of a slightly thicker fabric and has a more vivid red slip. It is decorated with stripes of white, black and yellow, with an intervening wave frieze in white.

Period
Archaic period
Date
600 BCE-550 BCE
Culture
Etruscan
Dimensions
H: 121.92 cm D: 50.04 cm
Findspot
Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Etruria
Museum
Harvard Art Museums
Accession Number
2007.104.5.A-C
Image Source
harvard
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)