Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora
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Campanian Red Figure Bail Amphora

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Southern Italy, circa 340 to 320 BC

Ample slender vessel of typical Campanian bail-amphora form, rising from a disk foot to a gently swelling ovoid body tapering to a flaring neck with broad flat rim. A single twisted strap handle arches across the top of the mouth. The entire vessel is covered in black glaze with red-figure decoration in the reserved technique, with added white and yellow details.

Side A: A standing warrior facing left, rendered in the reserved red-figure technique. The figure wears a necklace or pectoral ornament and holds a large round shield in his left arm and a spear in his right hand. The shield is depicted as a prominent circular reserve with traces of star-like ornament in yellow over white. The warrior may represent a young hero or possibly a mythological figure such as Achilles. Scrolling palmette tendrils flank the figure on both sides.

Side B: A himation-clad male figure walking intently to the left, framed by an asymmetrical pattern of elaborate scrolling palmettes and volutes.

The neck is decorated with large palmette fans radiating from the handle attachments. The body below the main panels features bold scrolling tendrils, volutes, and palmettes executed in the reserved red-figure technique against the black-glaze ground — characteristic ornamental vocabulary of mid-4th century Campanian workshops.

Size: Height 13¼ inches (33.6 cm). Multiple repairs.

The bail amphora was the most popular vessel shape produced by Campanian red-figure workshops during the 4th century BC, with major production centers at Capua and Cumae in southern Italy. This example displays the bold decorative palmette style and figural scenes typical of the mature Campanian tradition, circa 340–320 BC

Provenance: Property from a New York City collection; purchased Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 8, 1976, Sale 3870, Lot 345 (illustrated in catalog); accompanied by original auction catalog page and invoice.

 

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