Description:

Magna Graecia, Western Italy, Paestan, ca. 400 to 350 BCE. Attractive red-figure skyphos (wine cup) most likely produced in Paestum (just south of Naples), depicting a standing male wearing a toga leaning against his walking stick on Side A and a nude male standing in composite profile on Side B. Beneath each handle is a large, stylized palmette. Paestum was located on the west-coast of the Italian peninsula and was the home of some of the oldest Greek Italic painted ceramics. The Greek colonist artists of Magna Graecia were very much influenced by the styles of Athens and the mainland of the early 5th century BCE. They favored iconography that treated scenes of daily life as well as mythological subjects. This is a fine example, expertly painted in red figure, a technique that allows for remarkable naturalistic representations of the human figure in motion. An exemplary skyphos in very nice condition. Size: 7.75" W (from handle to handle) x 3.75" H (19.7 cm x 9.5 cm)

Provenance: Ex- Estate of M. Reiniger, Chicago, IL

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#111509

  • Condition: Small chip to inside of rim. Otherwise intact with very minor surface wear, pigment loss and encrustation to interior.

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