Lucanian Red-Figured Hydria

SKU: MS.0019

Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: c. 360 - 340 BC
Dimensions: 13.6" height x 11.75" width (34.5 cm x 29.8 cm) including handles, 9.75" diameter (24.8 cm)
Medium: Terracotta

Attributed to the Sydney Painter.  With three standing figures, a draped female in the center facing left, wearing a floor-length chiton and a himation over her bent left arm, holding a phiale in her extended right hand, a nude hunter standing before her, a chlamys draped around his shoulders, holding a spear in his left hand, a dog in between, a draped man to the right, enveloped in a himation, his right hand on the female's shoulder before him, a stele behind, a quartered ball in the field; a band of meander encircling below, the shoulders with confronting male and female busts, centered and flanked by palmette complexes, tongues, laurel and bead-and-reel on the neck, a palmette below each horizontal handle, an elaborate palmette complex with voluted tendrils below the vertical handle, radiating lines around the handle-roots, dotted ovolo on the rim.

with Antiquarium, New York, 1998. Private Florida Collection

For a related hydria by the Sydney Painter see no. 6, pl. 63 in A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily.

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Lucanian Red-Figured Hydria

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