Lot 48
48
A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF HANITA E. AND AARON DECHTER
A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE OWL-PILLAR GROUP, CIRCA 450-425 B.C.

Details
A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE OWL-PILLAR GROUP, CIRCA 450-425 B.C.
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 29 July 1969, lot 331.
Private Collection, Michigan.
Property of a Michigan Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 19 May 1979, lot 157.
Literature
A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, First Supplement, London, 1970, p. 119, no. 42a; Second Supplement, London, 1973, p. 267, no. 42a; Third Supplement, London, 1983, p. 310, no. 42a.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 67, no. 41.
Exhibited
San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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Lot Essay

The Owl-Pillar Group, according to A. Calinescu (pp. 202-203 in M.E. Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia), “displays an eclecticism of style and repertory that has continued to baffle scholars.” Whereas J.D. Beazley considered the “marvelously crude” style of the group to be of indigenous South Italian origin, R.M. Cook suggested that the group represented a “first venture” of “a few craftsmen, presumably immigrants from Athens” (Beazley and Cook quoted in Mayo, ed., op. cit.). More recent scholarship by Trendall has supported the local origins of the group and links its development to contemporary Etruscan pottery.

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