With spreading foot, echinus mouth, and
concave handles, one side painted with a
maenad dancing before a standing figure of
bearded Dionysos(?) wearing a chiton and
himation, dotted vines in the field, the other
side decorated with a maenad seated on a
folding stool brandishing an inidentifiable
object, and wearing a chiton, himation, and
sakkos, a bearded saytr gesturing before
her, rays above the foot, tongues below the
neck, two bands of ivy vine on each side of
the neck, linked lotus bud and four
palmettes in each handle zone, the details in
added red and white.
Provenance:
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February
15th, 1962, no. 107 (part)
An old handwritten label under the base
reads, "From the Tomb at Cumae, Italy -
Opened [in] 1885 in exca[va]tions - Brought
by me from [...] in the [...] of that year -
Etruscan"
- (LA.551)
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