Apulian Red-Figure Dish

An ancient Apulian Greek small red-figure dish, the interior with a head of a woman in profile, her hair bound in a sakkos, a wave pattern around the rim.

Apulia, Magna Graecia, South Eastern Italy.

Ca. 350 - 320 BC.

Diameter: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 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; previously in a California private collection, 1987.

Inv#: 9051

Guaranteed Authentic

$1,500