Baltimore, Hopkins 42.70
South Italian Squat Lekythos
ca. 350-325 B.C.
42.70. Brooklyn Museum Gift. "Apulia, near Capua." Ht, 31.7 cm; diam
rim, 9.2 cm; diam foot, 13.1 cm. Mended and restored. Deposit over surface.
Youth seated in left profile turns his head to gaze behind him. He is
nude except for mantle draped across waist and legs. He holds a staff in his
outstretched right hand. Behind him is draped standing maiden, turning to her
left. In front of her is Dionysos, seated three-quarters to his right with nude
torso, mantle draped over legs. In his right hand he holds a thyrsos. He turns
his head to glance back at a standing female in left profile who holds a thyrsos
in her right hand. Extensive use of added white.
Tongues around lower half of neck; band of wave pattern on shoulder
above reserved band. Figures stand on white band enclosed by black bounding
lines. Beneath is band of wave pattern beneath dotted white line, then white and
black bands. At back is seventeen-petal palmette amid scrolls.
This vase was identified by Trendall as a product of the LNO Painter,
who worked in the Cumaean shop of the CA Painter during the third quarter of the
fourth century.
1 Trendall points out that the LNA Painter was influenced by the Orvieto
and CC Sub-groups (Cumae A) within the CA workshop, as well as by another
subgroup, the Apulianizing Group (340-320 B.C.), best represented by the Ivy
Leaf Painter (Cumae A II).
The Hopkins vase is characteristic of Cumaean painting in its
generous use of white, yellow, and red paint, and its spiky stephanai.
Distinctive of the LNO Painter are the tall headdresses on the women and the
quiet groupings of standing and seated figures with multiple attributes.
Bibliography
Trendall 1967, 480, no. 282,
pl. 185.
