Lot 58
Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulian Culture, ca. 330 BCE. Apulian red-figure neck amphora of Panathenaic shape, attributed to the Patera Painter. Made with an intentional hole in the bottom, the ovoid body rests on a black gloss stemmed foot with reserved areas at the bottom of the stem and at the top edge of the somewhat bell-shaped foot. The shoulders merge into the tall, concave neck topped by a deep averted mouth with a black gloss interior, and flat strap handles rise from the shoulders to the ridge running around the middle of the neck. Demarcating the bottom of the pictorial scenes is a continuous frieze of black meander with plain and dotted squares on a reserved band. Side A depicts a grave stele set on a large stepped base decorated with a delicate vine scroll. Tied with black and white fillets, the stele has a meander pattern at top added in white. At the left is a woman dressed in a high-belted peplos, her hair in a kekryphalos, a cloth for binding up the hair which leaves some projecting in the back. Adorned with drop earrings, a bead necklace, and armbands, she steps up with her left leg bent and holds a long-handled patera in her right hand and a situla in her left. At the right stands a nude man wearing a white fillet in his hair, his chlamys draped over his left arm. With that hand he grasps a branch with berries, and in his lowered right hand is a large cluster of grapes. Both figures stand on dotted ground lines, and behind each of their heads is a large ivy leaf. Below the woman's raised left foot is a shield seen in profile., and below the handles, separating the figural scenes, are large palmettes flanked by tendrils. Side B shows two draped youths facing each other in conversation. The one on the left wears a himation with a waxy black border on the overhand and holds a large wreath. His companion on the right holds up a large cista decorated with two diagonally crossing lines and a large black dot in each quadrant. Behind each of their heads is a stylized ivy leaf. Above the figural scenes, an elongated tongue pattern covers the shoulders and lower neck and is topped by a band of zigzag. At the very top of the neck are upright black palmettes, and rightward laurel leaves in added white embellish the mouth. Finally, there are black tongues on the reserved bands at the bases of the handles. The Patera Painter is named after the long-handled patera which often appears on his vases. He was prolific, decorating a wide variety of shapes, and had a preference for funerary scenes on his larger vases, such as the one here. One side typically has a grave stele, and if there are two draped youths on the reverse, one often holds up a large cista decorated, as on the present vase, with two diagonally crossing lines and a large black dot in each quadrant. Black and white fillets are commonly tied around the shaft of the stele, which is usually crowned by a pediment. Characteristic of the drapery on the youths on the reverse is the wavy black border on the overhang of the himation on the youth to the left. The painter was also fond of including a piece of armor in his scenes, like the shield on the obverse of the present piece. 21"H. Custom stand. cf. a volute krater by the Patera Painter in Ros Collection, Zurich, illustrated in A.D. Trendall, "Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily" (London, 1989), figs. 229 - 230; another in the Ashmolean, inv. 1947.265; an amphora from the workshop of the Patera Painter sold at Cahn 6, 5 Nov. 2011, lot 149, illustrated at http://www.cahnauktionen.ch/catalogue/show_item.php?auction_nr=6&lot_nr=149&lang=en. Provenance: Ex-Prominent New York City, NY Gallery. All items in this auction have been legally acquired, are legal to sell, and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids, papered by our parent company, Artemis Gallery Ancient Art. The starting price is the lowest price at which the lot can sell.
- Condition: Intact/Choice.
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