Three women at a wash-basin, on either side stand attendants. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.

Date:
1937
Reference:
34475i
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Previous title, replaced June 2023 : Three women at a wash-basin, on either side stand attendants. Gouache painting.

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1937

Physical description

1 painting : gouache, on watercolour board ; image 22.8 x 43 cm

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Use of perfume at the toilet ; three women at a wash-basin; on either side an attendant, one with an alabastron, the other with a plemochoe. The lettering on the wash-basin is a popular sentimental inscription, typical of the period, meaning:- "You are beautiful". From an Atttic red-figure vase (now lost) 470-460 B.C. Richter, G. and Milne, M. "The shapes and names of Athenian vases." New York, 1935

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Wellcome Collection 34475i

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After an Attic red-figure vase (whereabouts unidentified)

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