AOULIAN RED FIGURE HYDRIA, VARRESE PAINTER

AOULIAN RED FIGURE HYDRIA, VARRESE PAINTER

Side A shows a scene of a woman dressed in a chiton, holding palmbrach in her right hand, a cista and mantle in her left, walking to the right towards a naked young man looking back while holding a wreath with fillet and mantle; dotted fillet inbetween. Large palmette beneath vertical handle, wave pattern below, half volute at either side

Ex priv. coll. A.de M., Brussel before 1970, hence Polak Works of Arts, Amsterdam 2013.
H. 35,5 cm. Intact. Details in added white paint.

4th cent., 360-340 BC

Cf. A.D. Trendall/A. Cambitogliou, The Red-figure Vases of Apulia, vol. I, Oxford 1978 pp. 335-356, pls. 108-114