Red Figure Chous

CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURE CHOUS Shape and Ornament: Trefoil mouth, flaring foot. Egg pattern on reserved neck. Below the handle, a full palmette flanked by dot rosettes and florals. Reserved ground line. Traces of red wash on all reserved areas. Subject: A woman walking left approaches an altar. She wears a peplos, a kekryphalos (?), and double bracelets, necklace, and earrings, and holds a mirror in her left hand and a fillet in her right. Behind her is a fillet hanging on the wall and a box (?) on the ground. Relief contour for outlines of woman and peplos. Dilute glaze for peplos details, headdress, arm muscles, mirror, shading of far side of altar. Accessory Colors: White woman's fillet, shoes, altar flame, and details of box and florals. Yellow woman's headband, jewelry, belt, and details of box and florals. Probably by the Painter of B.M. F 63. Attributed by A. D. Trendall (in a letter dated 8/3/79). About 350-320 B. C. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 53, 4-5. An Italic oenochoe with trefoil mouth; of Apulian workmanship under Greek influence. Scene is a woman with mirror in left hand, fillet in right, moving toward stele; behind her is fillet and box. Relief contour for outlines of woman and peplos. Dilute glaze for peplos details, headdress, arm muscles, mirror. shading of far side of altar.

Salerno 693 (Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, 1967. P. 320, pl. 125:7). Skyphos Leiden GNV 9 (Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, 1967. P. 319, no. 679, pl. 126:6).

Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 42, Plate 53, 4-5.