Lot 16A
Classical World, Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 BCE. A huge and beautiful red figure Apulian amphora with excellent provenance. On one side is a seated, draped woman within an Ionic naiskos, a small temple often applied as a motif in ancient funerary art. She is holding out a laden casket and a mirror in her right hand, and carrying a wreath - another funerary symbol - at her side. On the other side is a "lady of fashion" style head of a woman shown to the left, wearing a kekryphalos, a type of hair covering, earrings, and a bead necklace. There are large palmettes under each handle and an encircling frieze of meander below, with details added to the red in yellow and white. This work could possibly be attributed to a joint work by the Patera Painter and the Amphorae Painter based on the style of the woman's head. Size: 8" W x 19.9" H (20.3 cm x 50.5 cm)
Apulia was center of painting of this style for the South Italic Greek colonies, with half of all surviving red-figure vessels coming from that area. Most of these were produced at Taras, the large Greek polis in the region. The Apulian amphora style may have originated in Athens; it is distinguished by its huge size, with a thick mouth that spreads out like an inversed cone from the neck, which merges into the shoulder. These painted vases seem to have been highly valued and we know of many that have ancient repairs, implying they were worthwhile enough to keep even when broken. However, they were made primarily be to funerary furniture, placed around the body in the tomb, possibly to hold libations, or possibly empty.
cf. A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, II, Oxford, 1982, p. 746, no. 165 for similar.
Provenance: Ex-Private Orange County, CA collection; Christie's, 15 May 2002, London, Lot #437
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- Condition: Repaired with a restored foot. Some wear to paint
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