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Oil flask (lekythos) with child satyr jumping into his father's arms
Painter: The Satyriskion Painter
Greek
Early Classical Period
about 470–460 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Overall: 14.7 x 5 cm (5 13/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number00.351
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionSatyr, profile to left, stretches out hands to a small satyr who is jumping from a chair toward him. Beside the chair, a kalathos. Both satyrs are naked and bearded, and share the baldness that, in the human world, is reserved for the very old. A break in the mouth of the vase above the handle.
ProvenanceBy 1900: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Athens); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, February 1900