Lebes with Cover and Stand
600 BCE-550 BCE
Description
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.
Dimensions
Overall Height: 48 cm h (18 7/8 in. h) Bowl: 20 cm h x 31 cm diam. (7 7/8 in. h x 12 3/16 in. diam) Stand: 19.7 cm h x 16.4 cm diam. (7 3/4 in. h x 6 7/16 in. diam) Lid: 8.5 cm h x 31.1 cm diam. (3 3/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Etruscan Lebes with Stand and Lid: Purchased from George Allen, Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, PA, January 1966. Judged, and said, to have come from the neighborhood of Veii.
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