ATTRIBUTED TO THE FORLÌ PAINTER, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.

Details

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED PELIKE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE FORLÌ PAINTER, CIRCA 340-320 B.C.
15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) high

Provenance

with Aspendos Gallery, Berlin, by 1983.
Private Collection, Germany.
Property of a German Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1992, lot 219.
with Guinevere Antiques, London, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 1995.

Literature

A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, First Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1983, p. 102, no. 364a.
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1992, p. 489.

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Lot Essay

For a nearly identical scene on a pelike also by the Forli Painter, in Lecce, see fig. 221 in Trendall, Vases of South Italy and Sicily. Trendall (op. cit, p. 92) notes that the two youths on the reverse of that pelike, as here, are depicted with drapery that “projects outward to produce a curious sort of pattern around it” and their feet “have become shapeless lumps, their faces void of expression.”

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