A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE APHRODITE PAINTER, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.

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A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE APHRODITE PAINTER, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
The obverse with a draped female figure and a nude youth, the female figure wearing a chiton with a checker-pattern stripe down the center, holding a wreath and a phiale with two sprays, the youth leaning on a stick, his left arm enveloped in a chlamys, holding a mirror in his right hand, the neck with a profile female head wearing a foliate wreath; the reverse with two draped youths, the neck with a profile female head with her hair in a kekryphalos; with a band of wave below the scenes, the obverse with bands of laurel and wave on the shoulders, the reverse with bands of vertical lines and chevron, elaborate palmettes below the handles, details in added white
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Galerie am Museum, Freiburg.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1983 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. III, no. 13).
with Old World Galleries, New York.

Literature

A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum, Hertford, 1987, no. 2/970, pl. 149a-c.

Lot Essay

According to Trendall (op. cit., p. 237) this artist is "a painter of the highest significance, since he was the first of the Apulianising artists at Paestum..." Further, "on his coming to Paestum, the Aphrodite Painter seems to have joined the workshop of Asteas and Python and, under their influence, soon begins to paestanise."

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