Greek Apulian Polychrome Skyphos w/ Lady of Fashion

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It's a Small World | Diminutive Artifacts

By Artemis Gallery

Nov 11, 2021

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• Lot Description
  Greece, South Italic Colonies, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery skyphos with a tiered, pedestal foot, a gradually expanding body, a gently flared lip, and a pair of applied parabolic handles. Each side of the vessel exhibits a red-figure depiction of a 'lady of fashion,' each left-facing head with elegant eyes, a slender nose, a kekryphalos hairstyle, and curly bangs accentuated with fugitive white pigment, all beneath a register of petite cresting waves and separated with a pair of stylized palmettes. Layers of lustrous black glaze envelop the entire vessel and faint traces of silvery iridescence nicely complement the dark composition. Size: 6" in diameter x 2.8" H (15.2 cm x 7.1 cm)
  
  Perhaps the most exciting innovation in Greek vase painting was the red-figure technique, invented in Athens around 525 BCE and beloved by other artists of Magna Graecia. The red-figure technique allowed for much greater flexibility as opposed to the black-figure technique, for now the artist could use a soft, pliable brush rather than a rigid metal graver to delineate interior details, play with the thickness of the lines, as well as build up or dilute glazes to create chromatic effects. The painter would create figures by outlining them in the natural red of the vase, and then enrich these figural forms with black lines to suggest volume, at times perspectival depth, and movement, bringing those silhouettes and their environs to life. Beyond this, fugitive pigments made it possible for the artist to create additional layers of interest and detail as we see in this example.
  
  Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private T.G. collection, Williston, Florida, USA, #2885, acquired in 2000
  
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  #168065

  Condition

  Repair to handles with light restoration. Expected nicks and abrasions throughout, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent with impressive remaining pigments and detail.
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