An Attic Red-Figure Hydria, Attributed to the Chicago Painter, Circa 475-425 B.C.

painted with three women each draped and wreathed, one holding a mirror, one a small chest, and another a ball of yarn above a flaring basket filled with wool, bands of meanders and crossed squares above and below the scene, tongues on the overhanging rim, the details in added white..

acquired by the current owner's late husband from Folio Fine Art, Ltd., London, October 16th, 1969

 

Intact, sides and back of vessel including pouring handle and one lifting handle painted black presumably to mask large area of misfiring showing through in places, chip on outside edge of rim, two smaller chip on the inside, area of misfiring inside neck, another below scene.
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For two closely related hydriai by the same painter see J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figured Vase-painters, Oxford, 1963, p. 630, nos. 35 and 36 (Beazley Archive Pottery Database, nos. 207318 and 207319, illus.).