CIRCA 340 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE AMPHORA
CIRCA 340 B.C.
Side A: seated draped woman within Ionic naiskos, holding out laden casket and a mirror in her right hand, carrying a wreath at her side
Side B: profile head of a woman to the left, wearing a kekryphalos, earrings and a bead necklace, rays and band of dots on the shoulder above
Large palmettes under each handle, encircling frieze of meander below, details added in yellow and white, repaired with restored foot
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Lot Essay

Possibly attributed to a joint work by the Patera Painter and the Amphorae Painter (female head on reverse), cf. A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, II, Oxford, 1982, p. 746, no. 165 for similar.

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