ATTRIBUTED TO THE CA PAINTER, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.

Details

A CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED BELL-KRATER
ATTRIBUTED TO THE CA PAINTER, CIRCA 350-330 B.C.
14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) high

Provenance

English private collection, 19th century, based on old label on underside of foot.
P.J.B. Payne collection, Scottsdale, Arizona, acquired prior to 1979.
The Property of a Gentleman; Antiquities, Christie's, London, 12 December 1990, lot 67.
Acquired by the present owner in 1992.

Literature

A. D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Third Supplement, London, 1983, p.215, no.7a.

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Lot Essay

The obverse with a seated Oscan warrior with feathered helmet, shield and spear, a woman standing beside an altar holding a branch, and another wearing a white cloak and holding a mirror. The reverse with two women wearing voluminous himations, one seated on a folding stool. Trendall describes the CA Painter as the chief artist in a large workshop base in Cumae, who was particularly fond of ritual scenes, as shown here, with women and occasionally an Oscan warrior grouped around a stele.

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