id: 110568 accession number: 1929.135 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.135 updated: 2023-03-04 09:29:42.831000 Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Horseman, Horse between Warriors, Dog, c. 500 BC. Attributed to Edinburgh Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 505–485 BC). Ceramic; overall: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.135 title: Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Horseman, Horse between Warriors, Dog title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 500 BC creation date earliest: -505 creation date latest: -495 current location: 102B Greek creditline: The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edinburgh Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 505–485 BC) - artist Attic vase painter, active ca. 500-480 BCE --- measurements: Overall: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Classical Art, Karamu House, Cleveland, OH, (Aug. 31-Dec. 16, 1960). --- PROVENANCE (Mr. Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The Edinburgh Painter was the first artist to paint black-figure decoration on a white ground. digital description: Two armed warriors, each wearing a crested helmet and holding a spear and shield, flank a mounted horseman, who leads another horse. The warrior at right reaches up with one hand to the head of the second horse, raising the question of how he still holds his spear. Below, a dog twists to scratch itself and look back, its right hind foot apparently resting on one of the warrior’s. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 759 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/03BCE23C-CD9F-4D32-8777-05E0210E0763 Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. page number: p. 13-14, plate 19 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={03BCE23C-CD9F-4D32-8777-05E0210E0763}&startRef= --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.135/1929.135_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.135/1929.135_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.135/1929.135_full.tif