A Large Apulian Red-figured Panathenaic Amphora, attributed to the Iliupersis Painter, circa 350-330 B.C.

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the body painted in front with an aediculum containing a laver and two youths, including one holding spears and the bridle of a (fragmentary) horse, flanked on the left by a seated youth with spear and shield, a youth with spears next to a calyx krater, and a seated woman holding a box, and on the right with a youth holding a wreath, a seated woman with phiale(?), and a youth holding a helmet, and decorated on the back with an aediculum containing a large pear-shaped vessel on a stand, a kantharos below, flanked on the left with a woman holding a box and a seated youth with tray of fruit, and on the right with a woman lifting a basket, a youth with staff, and a seated youth with wreath and box, rays above the foot, palmettes in the handle zones, tongues above the shoulder, and palmettes on the neck.

Height 99 cm.

private collection, Switzerland, acquired in 1972

by descent to the present owner

Published

A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured vases of Apulia, Oxford, vol. 1, 1978, p. 196, no. 31

In a letter dated November 11th, 1973, A.D. Trendall attributes the vase to the Iliupersis Painter on the basis of several stylistic and iconographical features, including the kantharos at the base of the naiskos; he also identifies the two central figures in front as Achilles and Troilos, an opinion he later revised in his 1978 publication.

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