Apulian Lekythos

An ancient Apulian Greek lekythos painted with the head of a woman, her hair bound in a saccos, surrounded by white and yellow tendrils.

Apulia, Magna Graecia.
Ca. 330 - 320 BC.
Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm).

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#: 9460
Guaranteed Authentic

$3,500

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