Lot 249
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A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA, ATTRIBUTED TO THE OWL-PILLAR GROUP
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A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA, ATTRIBUTED TO THE OWL-PILLAR GROUP

CIRCA 440 B.C.

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A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE NECK AMPHORA, ATTRIBUTED TO THE OWL-PILLAR GROUP
CIRCA 440 B.C.
Side A: a standing draped woman, her hair bound in a sakkos, holding out a phiale to a youth leaning on a staff, wrapped in an himation, behind him a large volute krater with laurel wreath
Side B: an himation clad youth carrying a lidded pyxis, walking to left with right hand extended, an altar behind, the upper part in the form of an Ionic capital, with outline traces of fruit and flames
Egg-and-dart frieze around base of neck, the twin handles with incised twisted decoration
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold Münzen und Medaillen, Auktion XVI, Basel, 30 June 1956, no. 153.
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Lot Essay

For a discussion of this early group of Campanian vases imitating Attic originals, cf. M. E. Mayo (ed.), The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1982, pp. 201-203; A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, pp. 189, 667-673; J. D. Beazley, Groups of Campanian Red-figure, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 63, 1943, pp. 66-68; and Christie's London, The Castle Ashby Vases, 2 July 1980, lot 19 for a similar amphora.

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