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Source 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.
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Document identity
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143315
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Red-Figure Bail Amphora (Storage Vessel): Draped Women
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143315
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object
title
Red-Figure Bail Amphora (Storage Vessel): Draped Women
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.
date
330–320 BCE
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60751885
creators
18692
genreSpecific
Ceramic
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 12.2 cm (4 13/16 in.); Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)
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South Italian, Campanian, Cumaean
accession
1967.245
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ceramic
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Red-Figure Bail Amphora (Storage Vessel): Draped Women, 330–320 BCE. Attributed to CA Painter, Walters Sub-group (South Italian, Campanian, active at Cumae, c. 350–320 BCE). Ceramic; diameter: 12.2 cm (4 13/16 in.); overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Italian Ministry of Public Education, 1967.245
collection
GR - South Italy
didYouKnow
This vase once belonged to the famous opera singer Evan Gorga.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 1001476
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Italy Presents Gift to Museum,” November 14, 1967, <em>Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.</em>
citation
“Annual Report for 1967.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 6 (1968): 167–205. Ill. p. 173.
citation
Boulter, C. G. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum </em>(Cleveland Museum of Art Fascicule 1, USA 15)<em>.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 29, plate 45, 5-6
citation
Kerrigan, M.B. "A Theme by the CA Painter: Necromancy at Lake Avernus," <em>Archaeological News </em>IX.2/3 (1980): 21-32.
page_number
p. 25, fig. 4.
citation
Trendall, A. D. <em>The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily. Third Supplement (Consolidated)</em>. London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies (<em>BICS Supp.</em> 41), 1983.
page_number
p. 219, no. 4/102a.
citation
Szilágyi, J. G. "Contribution a l'Histoire de la Peinture de Vases a Figures Rouges Campanienne." <em>Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae</em> 18, fasc. 3-4 (1970): 241-262.<em><br></em>
page_number
Reproduced: fig. 20-21,
creditline
Gift of Italian Ministry of Public Education
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2026-05-29 07:22:06.978000
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143315
dept
Greek and Roman Art
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GR - South Italy
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ceramic
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gender unknown
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