AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED HYDRIA
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
26 in. (66 cm.) high
Provenance
with Donati Arte Classica, Lugano.
Collection of V. L., Nyon, Switzerland, acquired from the above in 1990.
Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 7, Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, 3 November 2017, no. 258.

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Lot Essay

The decoration is divided into two zones by a central band of complex meander. On the shoulders is a nuptial gathering. The bride, sitting on an elaborate chair, shelters from the sun under a fringed parasol. She is shown unveiling herself to the prospective groom, a lightly draped youth who is leaning on the edge of a sizeable laver. Attending them are three draped women. In the lower register is a central naiskos containing acanthus-lily complexes, with four draped women bearing gifts on either side.
For the bridal scene on the shoulder, compare the similar grouping of Paris and Helen on a hydria by the Baltimore Painter in Mattinata (see A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 871, no. 27/55, pls. 333, 3 and 333, 1).

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