Apulian Gnathia Skyphos: Lynx

An ancient Apulian Greek Gnathia skyphos with large lateral handles and a small foot with reserve band, painted with a lynx emerging from scrolling foliage, the Sun above, with decorative bands in added white above and below; by the Painter of Lecce 1075.

Apulia, Magna Graecia, South Eastern Italy.
Ca. 350 - 300 BC.
Width: 6 1/2 in. (16.6 cm).

Gnathia ware is so named as it was first found at the Apulian site of Egnathia. The black glaze ware is often decorated with applied red, white, or yellow painted floral motifs. Production probably was centered around Taras, with workshops in Egnathia, Canosa and Sicily.The output and quality of the Greek colonial potters working in Southern Italy increased greatly following the Peloponnesian War when Attic exports fell off sharply. South Italian Colonial Greek craftsmanship of the 4th century BC was an amalgamation of the Ionian (Athenian, Attic) conventions, and Doric (western colonial Greek) styles, with a noticeable native Italian aesthetic. The five predominant regional schools of South Italian pottery were: Apulian, Sicilian, Lucanian, Paestan, and Campanian.

Formerly in the collection of Jerome Eisenberg, New York.
Inv#: 8422
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