Greek - Antiquities from South Italy (South Italic)

The preference for Attic vases led to the development of South Italian workshops, strongly influenced by Attic style, but producing for local markets. "South Italic" is a term for Greek pottery manufactured during the 4th century B.C. Five regions produced South Italian wares - Apulia, Lucania, Paestum, Campania, and Sicily. Centers also developed in Teano (Campania), Canosa (Apulia), and Gnathia (Apulia), but these potteries moved away from classical red-figure and more towards less figurative work of the later Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Periods.

Large Greek Blackware Pottery Skyphos
Large Greek Blackware Pottery Skyphos

Magna-Grecia Greek Skyphos, ca. 350 B.C., coming most likely from southern Italy -- chance this one is Attic, as evidenced by twin concentric circles at base, often...

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Greek Apulian Skyphos - Saint Valentin Style
Greek Apulian Skyphos - Saint Valentin Style

Manufactured in the Greek colony of Apulia in southeastern Italy in the Xenon style, ca 340 to 325 B.C. Beautiful blackware skyphos (wine cup) with slightly-everted rim...

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Greek Xenon Ware Miniature Olpe
Greek Xenon Ware Miniature Olpe

Circa 325 BC, made in Apulia, southeastern Italy. Thin-walled miniature olpe with deep tapered form, rolled rim and single handle. Decorated with a laurel wreath...

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Superb Greek Apulian Kylix
Superb Greek Apulian Kylix

Although admittedly I do not recognize the subject of this incredible vessel, I am still able to marvel at its beauty! Large ancient Greek pottery kylix, from Apulia,

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Greek Apulian Lidded Lekanis
Greek Apulian Lidded Lekanis

Very rare size, almost a miniature! Ancient Greek Lekanis, ca. 350 B.C., from the ancient Greek colony of Apulia in southern Italy. Terracotta lidded pottery vessel with...

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Greek Pottery Figure of Eros
Greek Pottery Figure of Eros

Ancient Greco-Roman Figure, ca. 3rd-2nd century B.C. Hollow terracotta pottery figure of a Eros, Greek god of love. He is shown nude save a cloak worn over his...

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Greek Pottery Spindle Bottle
Greek Pottery Spindle Bottle

Ancient Greek pottery spindle bottle, ca 300 to 250 B.C., Hellenistic period. Of typical elongated form with long neck and flaring rim, decorated with several black...

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Greek Gnathian Ware Squat Skyphos
Greek Gnathian Ware Squat Skyphos

Ancient Greek Gnathian Ware Skyphos, ca. 4th century B.C. Black glaze squat vessel with attenuated handles and a reserve band around foot. With typical decoration...

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Hellenistic Terracotta Winged Eros, Ex-Christie's
Hellenistic Terracotta Winged Eros, Ex-Christie's

Very rare depiction of a youthful Erote / Eros, from Hellenistic Greece, ca. 2nd to 1st centuries B.C. Seated upon an integral socle, clutching a bunch of grapes,

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Greek Apulian Lidded Lekanis - Herakles Knots
Greek Apulian Lidded Lekanis - Herakles Knots

From ancient Greece, northern Italy from Apulia, ca. 325 B.C. Lidded pottery vessel decorated in red-figure with two Lady of Fashion portraits and twin palmettes;

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Apulian artists used polychromatic, coiling tendrils and flower forms and whirling swirls to fill traditionally black areas of vases, with frequent use of portrait or cameo faces of nymphs and satyrs. Campanian artists favored use of a broader color palette, often making female figures with white skin, while leaving male figures in red.