Greek red-figure neck amphora, South Italy, Paestum, c.340-320 BC, Asteas-Python workshop
Terracotta
Height: 25.2cm
11137
Charles Ede, London
The red-figure decoration, with some added white and ochre, shows a young woman moving to her right, wearing a high-girdled chiton with overfall and a 'dot-stripe' decoration down the middle....
The red-figure decoration, with some added white and ochre, shows a young woman moving to her right, wearing a high-girdled chiton with overfall and a 'dot-stripe' decoration down the middle. Around her head is a narrow, beaded kekryphalos, and on her wrists are white beaded bracelets. In her left hand is a beribboned tambourine and in her right is a sash with five small roundels. The back of the amphora shows a youth, naked except for his sandals, standing with his left foot resting on a spotted rock. Behind him is a thyrsus, in his left hand he holds a string of beads and in his right is an object similar to that of his companion. There are palmettes below each handle and at the front and back of the neck, a band of tongues around the shoulder. The body is set on a spreading foot, the ribbed handles rising from the shoulder and attached under the disc lip. Minor restoration to the lip and a small chip from the base.
Provenance
Charles Ede Ltd, London, UK; acquired 10th December 1981Graham C. Ives, Surrey, UK; acquired from the above, 5th March 1984
Susan Dyer, Camberley, UK; by descent from the above, her uncle, 2020
Publications
Christie's, London, UK, Fine Antiquities, 10th December 1981, lot 181, 'Various Properties'Charles Ede Ltd, Greek Pottery from South Italy 400-250 BC, IX (London, 1983), no.13
Charles Ede Ltd, General Antiquities 130 (London, 1984), no.14
A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum (Hertford, 1987), pl.133e (2/466)
