An Attic Red-figured Lekythos, attributed to the Icarus Painter, circa 470-450 B.C.

painted with a bearded himation-clad man leaning on a staff and holding a flower over an altar, meander above the scene, tongues on the shoulder.

Dr. Albert Hugh Lloyd (d. 1936), Christ's College, Cambridge
Spink & Son, Ltd., London, prior to 1942
William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, California (San Simeon no. 12328)
International Studio Art Division, The Hearst Corporation, New York, May 26th, 1958 (estate no. 2385)

John D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, Oxford, 1942, p. 482, no. 9
John D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1963, p. 697, no. 10
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 208340

Very good, and intact; the disk foot appears never to have been off. Minor chips and encrustations. The San Simeon inventory no. is written in pencil or ink underneath.
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The Icarus Painter is named after a lekythos painted with a winged youth in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 24.97.37.