550-510 B.C.

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A MINIATURE ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE BELLY AMPHORA
550-510 B.C.
One side with a nude youth looking back to the left, between two draped youths, details in added red and white, the other side with a nude athlete running to the left, hair in added red, chip to foot, 5½ in. (14 cm.) high; a Lucanian miniature red-figure neck amphora, attributed to the Roccanova Painter, one side with a bust of a youth facing to the left, the other with a bust of a woman wearing a necklace facing to the left, volute tendrils under the handles, neck with two palmettes, 350-330 B.C., 5¾ in. (14.8 cm.) high; and a Campanian oinochoe with trefoil lip, painted with applied red decoration, the shoulder with tongued frieze, the body with olive wreath and conjoined dotted 'figure-of-eight' pattern, lip chipped, 4th Century B.C., 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high (3)

Provenance

Abbé H. Campbell Collection, Naples (items 1 and 3).
Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Yorkshire: sold Christie's London, Greek and Etruscan Vases from Nostell Priory, 30 April 1975, lot 14 (item 1) and lot 11 (items 2 and 3).

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Abbé H. Campbell, Op. cit., no 19 (item one) and no 22 (item three); and A. D. Trendall, LCS, Op. cit., pp. 130-131 and p. 136, no. 725 (item two).

The majority of the vases by the Roccanova painter were found in a large Hypogeum in the same town in Lucania from which the Roccanova painter takes his name from. Trendall discusses the style of painting on no. 725: "A few small vases are decorated with the heads of youths or women; the rendering is very characteristic for either sex, with rather straggly hair, upward-looking eyes with large black pupils, and slightly parted lips; on nos. 706 and 725 the shoulders are clearly indicated, and we have a torso rather than just a head".

Miniature amphora: ink inscribed label '81' on base; neck amphora: ink inscribed label '56' on base; oinochoe: ink inscribed label '69' on base.

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