OK, anyone ready for another AotD?
This neat
bowl (I'm sure there is a 'proper' name for it) is from
Graecia Magna (i.e. southern
Italy) from around 4th century BC. The vital statistics are 3" high, 4.5" across the
bowl and 8" across the handles.
It may be stating the obvious - or perhaps it's not - that the
face of the 'Lady of Fashion' is not painted onto the
bowl, rather that it is outlined by the black paint and plus there a couple of splodges of white paint for decoration.
Apulia was the leading South
Italian vase painting tradition between 430 and 300 BC. Of the circa 20,000 surviving specimens of
Italian red-figure vases, about half are from Apulian production, while the rest is from the four other centres of production, namely
Paestum,
Campania,
Lucania and
Sicily. This includes, of course, the much more lavish (and expensive) kraters, etc.
