A red-figured amphora with an arched handle

Description:

Campania, possibly by the CA Painter. Circa 350 B.C
H. 37 cm
Decorated with a seated maenad facing right, adorned with jewellery but bare-breasted, holding a thyrsos in her right hand and an elaborate casket in her left. Richly detailed throughout.
From an old German private collection, acquired before 1990, largely documented in photographs of the owners’ homes taken in 1984 and 1985 - Copy of catalogue entry and image, numbered with 187, plate 32 - Cf. A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily (LCS), p. 181, Walters Sub-group; pp. 462-464.