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Kalpis with Toilette Scene with Two Women and Eros
(Ancient Greece )
This red-figure kalpis depicts a mistress, a maid, and Eros. In the center a woman (mistress) sits on a klismos in profile to the right, extending her arms toward Eros who flies in from the right. In each hand she holds an oval-shaped object (fruit or egg), and a ribbon in white, now mostly lost, is draped across her arms. She wears a chiton and mantle, and her hair is held in place by ribbons. Eros has a fillet, holds a small chest up in his right hand, and carries a clump of sprigs in his lowered left hand. On the left another woman stands in profile to the right, looking into a mirror that she holds up in her right hand. She wears an ungirded chiton decorated with two vertical stripes, and her hair is held in place by ribbons.
Scenes with a centrally seated woman and flanking figures to either side are common both at this time and with this painter.
This is the only Attic red-figure vase known to have come from Castel Campanile, a site near Caere excavated in 1837.
Inscription
Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [cat. no. 220]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Attica
(Place of Origin)
Italy, Cerveteri, Castel Campanile (Caere) (Place of Discovery)
Measurements
with handles: 11 7/16 x 10 3/16 in. (29.1 x 25.9 cm) (h. x diam.);
at rim: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm) (diam.);
at mouth: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm) (diam.);
at foot: 3 15/16 in. (10 cm) (diam.)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.78