Lucanian Red-Figure Skyphos: Sphinx
An ancient Lucanian Greek large red-figure skyphos with a seated diademed female sphinx on each side, with palmettes under the handles. Lucania, Magna Graecia, Southern Italy. Ca. 330 - 300 BC. Height: 4 1/4 in. (11.5 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. Published: K. Schauenburg , Studien zur unteritalischen Vasenmalerei, vol. XIII (Kiel, 2005), no. 67, pl. XXIX. Formerly in the Jerome Eisenberg collection, New York; previously in the Tollmann collection, Cologne, acquired, in the 1960s.
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