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ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA EXHIBITION PAINTER, CIRCA 330-300 B.C.
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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED AMPHORA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA EXHIBITION PAINTER, CIRCA 330-300 B.C.
The obverse with a seated woman and her attendant within an Ionic naiskos with key pattern on its plinth, the woman seated to the left on a pile of rocks, holding an open box and a wreath in her left hand, the attendant holding a fan and a ball of wool, both wearing chitons with two red stripes, their hair bound in kekryphaloi, the seated woman wearing a himation draped over the back of her head, with a ball, patera and phiale in the field, a fillet hanging on either side of the naiskos; the reverse with a stele tied with black and white fillets, framed on either side by flowers; with a band of meander below the scenes, the shoulders of the obverse with a facing female head emerging from a flower amidst florals, framed above and below by bands of rosettes, the reverse with a band of black tongues framed by bands of wave above and below, with palmettes on the neck, a white vine on the mouth, and palmette complexes below the handles
31¾ in. (80.6 cm.) high
ATTRIBUTED TO THE VIRGINIA EXHIBITION PAINTER, CIRCA 330-300 B.C.
The obverse with a seated woman and her attendant within an Ionic naiskos with key pattern on its plinth, the woman seated to the left on a pile of rocks, holding an open box and a wreath in her left hand, the attendant holding a fan and a ball of wool, both wearing chitons with two red stripes, their hair bound in kekryphaloi, the seated woman wearing a himation draped over the back of her head, with a ball, patera and phiale in the field, a fillet hanging on either side of the naiskos; the reverse with a stele tied with black and white fillets, framed on either side by flowers; with a band of meander below the scenes, the shoulders of the obverse with a facing female head emerging from a flower amidst florals, framed above and below by bands of rosettes, the reverse with a band of black tongues framed by bands of wave above and below, with palmettes on the neck, a white vine on the mouth, and palmette complexes below the handles
31¾ in. (80.6 cm.) high
Provenance
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1981.
Literature
M. Mayo, The Art of South Italy, Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, no. 77.
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, First Supplement to The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1983, no. 28/86d, pl. XXXIV,3 & 4.
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, First Supplement to The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1983, no. 28/86d, pl. XXXIV,3 & 4.
Exhibited
The Art of South Italy, Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere, May 1982 - April 1983.