An ancient Apulian Greek red-figure bell-krater with a maenad moving to the right and turning back and swinging a thyrsos between two nude satyrs, the one on the right with a goat skin over his shoulders and holding a thyrsos.
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.
$9,000
