A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA

ATTRIBUTED TO ASTEAS, CIRCA 340-330 B.C.

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A PAESTAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO ASTEAS, CIRCA 340-330 B.C.
With winged and bejewelled Eros pushing a draped female figure on a swing, the female wearing a peplos with dot-stripe border, the swing tied to the reserved band above the scene, a woman looking out of a window to the right, a quartered ball, two dotted rosettes and a scrolling plant in the field, wave pattern groundline, beneath each side handle a female head with hair bound in a kekryphalos, beneath the pouring handle a large double palmette with foliate scrolls either side, band of laurel on the shoulder, tongues around the neck, details in added white and yellow
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Schweizer collection, Switzerland.
with Frank Sternberg AG, Zurich, 1993.

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Lot Essay

Asteas and his probable student the Python Painter were the most influential of the Paestan vase painters. Trendall states 'it is primarily to Asteas that the credit must be given for establishing the canons which were to govern Paestan vase-decoration throughout the life of the fabric' (The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum, Hertford, 1987, p. 55).

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