ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER CIRCA 325 B.C.
Details
AN APULIAN RED-FIGURE HYDRIA
attributed to the baltimore painter
circa 325 b.c.
With a seated woman and her attendant within an ionic naiskos, both figures in white, wearing diaphanous chitons, the attendant leaning on a pillar with her right arm, a fan in her left hand, the seated woman with a mirror in her right hand, her left arm resting on the stool, a fillet and ball in the field, a painted pedimented box hanging above, with four female offering bearers around the naiskos, a band of ovolo on the rim, the neck with a band of laurel with a rosette at the center, the naiskos plinth with a band of ivy, a large palmette complex below the handle, a band of meander with saltire squares below the scene, details in added white and yellow
26¼ in. (66.5 cm.) high
attributed to the baltimore painter
circa 325 b.c.
With a seated woman and her attendant within an ionic naiskos, both figures in white, wearing diaphanous chitons, the attendant leaning on a pillar with her right arm, a fan in her left hand, the seated woman with a mirror in her right hand, her left arm resting on the stool, a fillet and ball in the field, a painted pedimented box hanging above, with four female offering bearers around the naiskos, a band of ovolo on the rim, the neck with a band of laurel with a rosette at the center, the naiskos plinth with a band of ivy, a large palmette complex below the handle, a band of meander with saltire squares below the scene, details in added white and yellow
26¼ in. (66.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 10-11 December 1984, lot 368.
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Melbourne, Graham Geddes Collection
Literature
Trendall and Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, part II, no. 27/52d.