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Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes
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LOT 0080

Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes

4TH CENTURY B.C.

18 1/8 in. (3 kg, 46 cm high).

The vessel with integral round-section upward-facing handles, a third, round-section handle placed vertically between shoulder and upper neck to rear; laurel sprigs to the neck with traces of gilding; combat scene with Amazons (and Trojans?) below, armed with short swords and crescent shields, most wearing an exomis leaving the shoulder and one breast uncovered; volute palmettes below both side-handles, a panel of tiered and swirling volutes to the rear, all on a band of egg-moulding, repeated around the rim; possibly Apulian or Campanian; restored.

Provenance

Ex collection Woodyat, Rome, Italy, 1912.
with Vente Genève, 24 & 25 June 1960.
Private European collection.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11581-199028.

Literature

Cf. The British Museum, museum number 1867,0508.1339 'Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar)', for a similar type of vessel with a comparable volute panel to the rear, in Smith, A.N., Pryce, F.N., CVA British Museum 2 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, 1926, pl.8, 15; cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 07.128.1, for a similar vessel type, in Von Bothmer, D., Guide to the Collections: Greek and Roman Art, New York, 1964, p.24, fig.32; Trendall, A.D. & Cambitoglou, A., The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol.1, Oxford, 1978, pl.XXX; Robinson, E.G.D., Carpenter, T., Lynch K.M., The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs, Cambridge, 2014, figs.4.5; for the represented topic see Patten, A.E., Addressing the Other: The Amazon in Greek Art, University Honors Theses, Portland, Paper 24, 2013, fig.2, folio VIII.

Footnotes

The mythological topic of this hydria is fascinating, representing a fight between Amazons and Greek or Trojan heroes (suggested by the central cavalryman wearing a Phrygian cap). During this period, Amazons were no longer represented as Persian or Scythian warriors, as in Attic red-figure ceramics, but depicted as athletic parthenoi and wearing chitons. Rather than oriental costume and armour, the Amazons wear a short exomis with a bare shoulder and breast (Patten, 2013, PI.VI, I, VI,2, 2 and 3).

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LOT 0080

Greek Red-Figure Hydria with Combat Scene Between Amazons and Greek or Trojan Heroes

Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800

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