A Campanian red-figure lebes gamikos
Attributed to the Laghetto Painter, circa 350-320 B.C.
The obverse depicting a winged Eros, nude but for his sandals and bracelets, seated on a rock and facing left, his outstretched right arm holding a pyxis, the reverse with a draped female, her right breast bared, adorned with a necklace, her hair bound in a sakkos, also seated on a rock, holding a phiale in her right hand, with palmettes beneath the high arched handles, tongues on the neck, dotted rays and a band of waves around the knobbed lid, details in added white and yellow, 19.5cm high注脚Provenance:
with Dr Christoph F. Leon, Basel in May 1998.

For similarly depicted figures, see a skyphos also by the Laghetto Painter in A.D. Trendall, The Red Figured-Vases of Lucania, Campania, and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, pl. 120, nos. 4-5.