A Campanian red-figure lekythos
Attributed to the CA Painter, circa 4th Century B.C.
With a large female head in profile, adorned with a beaded necklace and earrings, her hair bound in a sakkos, a palmette beneath the handle, tongues on the neck, 22cm high注脚Provenance:
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1995.

Characteristic of the CA Painter is the depiction of the female head with lips slightly parted and hair confined in a sakkos. For a head similarly depicted, see a lekanis lid by the CA Painter in A.D. Trendall, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, p. 475, no. 232.