Greek Apulian Red-Figure Oinochoe

4th century BC. An Apulian red-figure oinochoe with ovoid body in orange clay, matte black paint, disc foot, decorated with a wave pattern on the neck, and a figure of a hermaphrodite with open wings, naked, seated on a diphros with his right arm outstretched to collect dew with a bowl from the bell-shaped flowers in front of him; on the reverse a stylised representation of a palmette twig. See for similar oinochoe Greco, E., Guzzo, G., Laos II, la tomba a camera di Marcellina, Taranto, 1992, no.65, pl.XX, no.3. 165 grams, 18.2cm (7 1/4"). Property of a private collector; previously acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. This oinochoe imitates the Apulian shape I of Trendall classification, but it is most probably from a South Italian Greek workshop. It incorporates elements from the Apulian ceramic tradition, maybe mediated through Lucanian red-figure production. It elaborates on the various Tyrrenian influences from Campania and Western Lucania, which also involved Sicily. [A video of this lot can be viewed on the Timeline Auctions website]
Condition Report: Fine condition.