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Lot Essay
According to A.D. Trendall (p. 79 in Red Figured Vases of South Italy and Sicily), the Iliupersis Painter is “an artist of the highest importance” for his role in advancing a new style of Apulian vase painting. The painter established the canons for the decoration of monumental funerary vases, which feature mourners around a naiskos on the obverse and a stele on the reverse.
On the obverse of this large and highly ornamented pelike, a seated woman with a mirror is flanked by a standing nude youth holding a strigil and an open box and a maid holding a parasol above the woman's head; in the field above to the left is a seated Eros. The reverse features a nude youth holding a strigil seated between two standing draped women, one of whom holds a wreath above his head.
On the obverse of this large and highly ornamented pelike, a seated woman with a mirror is flanked by a standing nude youth holding a strigil and an open box and a maid holding a parasol above the woman's head; in the field above to the left is a seated Eros. The reverse features a nude youth holding a strigil seated between two standing draped women, one of whom holds a wreath above his head.