A large Campanian red-figure skyphos
Attributed to the Boston Ready Painter, circa 330-310 B.C.
The obverse showing a female advancing to the left, her hair bound in a sakkos, wearing a peplos and holding a box in her right hand, a thyrsus in her left, a wheat sheaf and bunch of grapes in the field, the reverse with a heavily draped male, a large palmette under each handle, a band of waves as the groundline, with added white and ochre, 18.9cm high注脚Provenance:
Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, Bern.
Private collection, Germany, acquired from the above in 1980.

Characteristic of the Boston Ready Painter is the decoration of reverses with youths draped in ample himatia extending in front of their bodies; cf. a parallel on a skyphos from Cumae in A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, p. 518, no. 637.