On left is Lekythos, Vase E588 attributed to the Bowdoin Painter, created in 480-440 BCE, and measuring 13.335 cm in height. The vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1851,0227.1. Pottery: red-figured lekythos. An owl to right looking back; behind, a tendril springing from the ground. The clay has been burnt to a pale ashen colour, and a foot in red clay, which does not belong, has been added. Drawing of good period. Below, key pattern; on the shoulder, a group of two palmettes, with one inverted between them, and two single palmettes; round the neck, rays. --The British Museum; In center is Lekythos, Old Catalogue 747, Vase E584 attributed to the Bowdoin Painter, created in 480-440 BCE, and measuring 29.21 cm in height. The vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, discovered in Sicily, Italy and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1836,0224.70. Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Nike in a long undertied chiton, with hair falling loose (one tress in front of ear), fillet, and bracelets, flies to right, holding out in her right an oinochoe, in her left a phiale, from which wine flows on to a blazing altar having an Ionic capital, with three sashes attached to its shaft. Late and careless stage of severe style. Purple flames, wine, inscription and fillet. Below, pairs of maeander separated by black cross squares. On shoulder, which is left red, five black palmettes; round the neck, black rays. --The British Museum; On right is Lekythos, Vase E643 attributed to the Palermo Painter, created in 480-460 BCE, and measuring 29.21 cm in height. The vase was created in Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, discovered in Fikellura Cemetery, Tomb 43, Kámiros, Aegean Islands, Greece and is housed at British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom under Repository ID: 1864,1007.191.Pottery: red-figured lekythos. Nike, in long chiton, bordered mantle fastened on left shoulder, bracelets and fillet, hair falling loose down back, flies to right, holding phiale in left, and with right pouring wine from a jug over a blazing altar of a form developed from an Ionic capital, with necking of dots. The lower part of her legs and her feet are missing. Left-hand lower part of design missing. Late stage of severe style. Purple flame, inscription, wine, and ends of fillet. Eye in archaic type (inner angle open). Below, strip of maeander with red cross squares (mostly broken away). Round the neck, a band of rays. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: black-figured hydria. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides and lotus and honeysuckle along the bottom; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: Combat of warriors, perhaps Achilles and Memnon: In the centre, a warrior to left, fully armed, with two pellets on shield, beaten back on one knee by a similarly armed warrior, who also has a short embroidered chiton, and a Boeotian shield. On the right is another warrior coming up to the defence of the fallen one, with helmet, short embroidered chiton, sword, spear, and shield with the device of an eight-point star. Behind each of the two latter warriors is a female figure looking on and clapping her hands; each has long hair with a fillet, long embroidered chiton and striped himation. Behind them are beardless male figures, with fillets, and drapery over the lower part of their bodies, carrying spears. 2. On the body: Water-drawing at Callirrhoe: On the left is a building supported by a Doric column painted white, on the left side of which is a fountain with water pouring from a lion's head into a hydria placed on a step. In the field is inscribed: Καλ(λ)ιρ(ρό)η κρήνη. Outside stands a maiden to left; above her is inscribed: Σίμυλις. The next one stands to left holding a hydria on her head; behind her: Σίμυλις (as before); next to her is one to right holding a hydria on her head; in front of her: Έπηράτη. The next one, also to right, has a hydria on her head, in left hand a wreath; in front of her: Κυάνη. On the right are two more, to left, the first with an empty hydria carried horizontally on a pad on her head, to which she raises right hand; behind her is inscribed: Εύήνη. The other has a hydria on her head, and right hand raised; behind her is inscribed: Χορονίκη. All have long hair and fillets, long chitons and himatia, both embroidered, and hold branches, except the second, who has no himation, but a diapered chiton with diploldion; their faces have been much repainted. Above is inscribed : Ίπ(π)οκράτης καλός. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931