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Red-Figure Bail Amphora (Storage Vessel): Draped Women

Red-Figure Bail Amphora (Storage Vessel): Draped Women

330–320 BCE
(South Italian, Campanian, active at Cumae, c. 350–320 BCE)
South Italian, Campanian, Cumaean
ceramic
Diameter: 12.2 cm (4 13/16 in.); Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)
Gift of Italian Ministry of Public Education 1967.245
Location: 102D Pre-Roman

Did You Know?

This vase once belonged to the famous opera singer Evan Gorga.

Description

The bail amphora, named for the tall handle arching over the mouth, is a shape made primarily in Campania, where red-figure vases were produced at both Capua and Cumae in the 4th century BC. The anonymous painter of this vase is known as the CA Painter, for Cumae A, the first significant artist in this area. The seated and standing women on both sides of the vase, some only partially draped (and their white skin now largely lost), recall those on many of the painter’s other vases, as do the elaborate palmette patterns on either side.
  • Gorga Collection
    Museo Nationale di Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
    1967
    Italian Ministry of Public Education, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1967-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
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    Boulter, C. G. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Cleveland Museum of Art Fascicule 1, USA 15). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 29, plate 45, 5-6 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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    Trendall, A. D. The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily. Third Supplement (Consolidated). London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies (BICS Supp. 41), 1983. p. 219, no. 4/102a.
    Szilágyi, J. G. "Contribution a l'Histoire de la Peinture de Vases a Figures Rouges Campanienne." Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 18, fasc. 3-4 (1970): 241-262.
     Reproduced: fig. 20-21,
  • Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
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