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| Keywords: Cassel Painter - Kalpis with Toilette Scene with Two Women and Eros - Walters 4878 - Side A Detail.jpg 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 ca 440 BC Classical terracotta with handles cm 29 1 25 9 h x diam ; at rim cm 12 4 diam ; at mouth cm 9 diam ; at foot cm 10 diam accession number 48 78 28454 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome cat no 220 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Cassel Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update Eros in ancient Greek pottery Kalpis | ||||
