Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 148
I lO FOURTH ROOM duced solid washes in a variety of colors. Besides several lekythoi on the bottom of this case (see fig. 69), this tech- nique is best shown in a pyxis (fig. 68), one of the finest of its kind known (placed in Case V). The representation Case V on it is the famous judgment of… … execution it is a masterpiece of Greek FIG. 69. WHITE LEKYTHOS art (fig. 71, center). Its style places it AMAZON WITH A in the early fifth century. Other good SLING stones, likewise from Cyprus, are a chalcedony with Hades and Persephone (fig. 71, right), a plasma with a youth and his dog, and a…
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