Ceramic Pitcher - 19.5 cm - Apulian Style Oinochoe

A greek-apulian style red-figure ceramic oinochoe with Phlyax play decoration. After the antique. End 19th Century-20th Century.

Dimensions: 19, 50 cm.

Provenance: Dutch auction house. Formerly Dutch private collection

A phlyax play, also known as a hilarotragedy was a burlesque dramatic form that developed in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the 4th century BC. From the surviving fragments and titles of the plays, they appear to have been a form of mythological burlesque, which mixed figures from the Greek pantheon with the stock characters and situations of Attic Comedy.