Greek Apulian Red-Figure Hydria w/ Nude Male

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Sep 26, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Magna Graecia, South Italic, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. A hydria of a classic form with a voluminous piriform body, twin upraised handles emerging from the shoulder and one handle on the side opposite the figural scene joining the upper neck to the shoulder, a tubular neck rising to a wide flared rim with a flanged edge, all upon a concave round foot. The attractive figural/decorative program is delineated via the red-figure technique with added/fugitive white and yellow pigment. A male figure sits in profile facing left. Although nude for the most part, he does wear sandals and his body is nicely decorated with a strand of beads across his chest, another around his left thigh, bracelets, anklets, and a beaded headband/diadem. He holds a wreath in his left outstretched hand and a ribbon in his right. The decorative program features a large palmette beneath the upper handle and additional tendrils beneath the lower handles, a band of frets on the neck, and two dotted circular motifs above each of the lower handles. A lovely example of Apulian red-figured pottery. Size: 5.75" W x 8.125" H (14.6 cm x 20.6 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 J.H. collection, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
  
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  Condition

  Minute nicks to rim and base. Normal surface wear with minor pigment loss, scuffs, and areas of abrasion commensurate with age. Some areas of encrustation to rim and interior of neck. Black glaze has developed a silvery iridescence.
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