Greek Apulian Red-Figure Trefoil Oinochoe w/ Maskettes

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Fine Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic Art

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Oct 31, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Magna Graecia, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. A tall-neck oinochoe decorated via the red-figure technique with wonderful details in added fugitive white pigment. The body of the vessel presents a beautiful Lady of Fashion with an elaborate beaded saccos, an orb-shaped earring with several pearl drops, and a beaded necklace. Above is a band of running egg and dart motifs with vertical frets adorning the neck above, both registers bordered by two horizontal lines, and a complex stylized palmette adorning the area below the upraised handle. In addition to the marvelous iconographic/decorative program, the vessel presents an elegant form comprised of an inverted piriform body, a long slender neck, a trefoil lip that is decorated with an egg and dart border, a pair of florettes punctuating the inner corners and two maskettes to either side - all delineated in bas relief, and a raised tripartite strap handle joining rim to shoulder, all upon a flared, concave pedestal base with a tiered border. Size: 4" W x 10.5" H (10.2 cm x 26.7 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; ex-Malter Galleries, Encino, California, USA
  
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  Condition

  Vessel is repaired from multiple pieces with a few chips/losses and some visible adhesive near the break lines as shown. Normal surface wear with scuffs and minute pigment losses commensurate with age. A fragment from an iron object that was juxtaposed with it in the tomb that has fused with the underside of the arched handle.
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