An Attic white-ground lekythos and an Attic red-figure lekythos
Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.
The white-ground lekythos decorated in red with a draped female running to the left and looking back at a stele tied with black fillets, a band of meander above, dotted rays on the shoulder; the red-figure lekythos, attributed to the Carlsruhe Painter, with a heavily swathed woman wearing a sakkos, holding a mirror in her outstretched left hand, a phiale in her right, a kalathos next to her, the groundline in added red, dotted rays at the shoulder, 17cm and 16.5cm high respectively (2)注脚Provenance:
Sir Frances Sacheveral Darwin (1786-1859) collection, UK; and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 5 October 2011, lot 480.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.
Red-figure lekythos: Beazley Archive no. 9026141.

Sir Darwin, a relative of Charles Darwin, travelled in the Mediterranean and the East from 1808-1810, and was the only one of his companions to return alive. His diary of the tour details his burgeoning interest in antiquities.