Red-Figure Bell-Krater (Mixing Bowl) (Primary Title)
associated with, Schiller Painter, South Italian (Apulian) (Artist)
The phlyax play was a type of rustic South Italian comedy that parodied famous myths and plays and spoofed situations from daily life. South Italian vases showing these plays are especially valuable because the texts have not survived. Phylax actors wore padded costumes and comic masks that identified the type of character they portrayed (here an old man and two slaves).
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
“Five Years of Collecting,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA): 25 March-4 May 1980.
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