16⁵⁄₈ in. (42.2 cm.) high

Ruloff Kip, New York (perhaps W. Ruloff Kip (1876-1935), Egyptologist and benefactor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Antiquities, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 1 December 1972, lot 198.

A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Second Supplement, London, 1973, p. 230, no. 32b; Third Supplement, London, 1983, p. 216, no. 32b.
M.E. Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, p. 214, no. 95.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 69, no. 43.

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Tulsa, The Philbrook Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, 12 May 1982-10 April 1983.
San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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Lot Essay

The CA Painter (for “Cumae A”) was one of the chief artists working in the Campanian style in Cumae rather than its primary hub in Capua. A favorite subject was the Italic warrior, as seen in this example, here wearing a wide-belted tunic, graves and a plumed helmet. While it is tempting to see this hydria and lot 534 as a pair, the discrepancy in sizes and – as Mayo, op. cit., observes – the standard repertoire of the CA Painter prevents this conclusion.