PAESTAN RED FIGURE OINOCHOE, NAPELS 1778

PAESTAN RED FIGURE OINOCHOE, NAPELS 1778

Red figure ‘Dionysic’ scene of naked young man with thyrsus staff and wreath leaning on a shield towards woman seated on a rock, who looks back at him and dressed in long dotted chiton with panther skin, holding thyrsus staff. Large palmette between half volutes beneath vertical band handle, trefoil mouth; details in added white, yellow and red

Ex priv. coll. A.de M., Brussels before 1970, hence Polak Works of Arts, Amsterdam 2013
H. 27,7 cm. Intact, some paint flaked off at rim of mouth

4th cent. BC, 330-320 BC.  Painter of Napels 1778

Cf. A.D. Trendall/A. Cambitogliou, The Red-figure Vases of Paestum, vol. II, Oxford 1982