Lot Essay
Attributed to the Castellani Caeratan Painter. For a similar example see pl. 49 in Del Chiaro, Etruscan Red-Figured Vase Painting at Caere, Berkley, 1974
Details
AN ETRUSCAN RED-FIGURE STAMNOS
CIRCA 335-310 B.C.
With egg-and-dart on the rim, a wide band of wave pattern on the shoulders above egg-and-dart, palmettes below the handles with scrolling vegetive motifs to either side, with, on one side, a maenad, wearing a chiton with a central vertical stripe, holding a thyrsos in one hand and wreath in the other standing before a satyr, nude but for his boots, who carries a wine amphora, white ribbons tied on the handles, and holds out a libation bowl with his right hand, and on the other side, a satyr approaches a seated woman holding a mirror in her right hand, 14 in. (35.5cm.) high
CIRCA 335-310 B.C.
With egg-and-dart on the rim, a wide band of wave pattern on the shoulders above egg-and-dart, palmettes below the handles with scrolling vegetive motifs to either side, with, on one side, a maenad, wearing a chiton with a central vertical stripe, holding a thyrsos in one hand and wreath in the other standing before a satyr, nude but for his boots, who carries a wine amphora, white ribbons tied on the handles, and holds out a libation bowl with his right hand, and on the other side, a satyr approaches a seated woman holding a mirror in her right hand, 14 in. (35.5cm.) high
Exhibited
The Tampa Museum of Art, 1989-1993