Two non-joining fragments, P 4811 of rim with start of wall, P 3445 of wall. Narrow band on inside of P 4811 (at rim), another 0.065 below rim. Glaze fired red except for palmette ornament on P 4811 and for contour line on P 3445. P.H. P 4811: 0.079; max. dim. P 3445: 0.107, P 4811: 0.135. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 286, pl. 36 (P 3445); M. Farnsworth, Archaeology 12, 1959, p. 248, fig. 11 (P 3445).

P 4811 preserves a zone of diagonally addorsed palmettes on the rim below the torus and the top of the head of a figure on the wall below. P 3445 shows a woman(?), part of chiton and himation, to left. At the right, an uncertain object, perhaps the back leg of a chair. Preliminary sketch (P 3445).

The misfiring of the background is consistently of the same color, not the varying color caused by an overcrowded kiln. Nor is it intentional coral-red. G. M. A. Richter, in a note to Lucy Talcott, suggested that the red is a product of the workman who, in mixing the glaze for filling in the background, in some way altered the proportions of the ingredients. This would account for the uniformity of the red. See Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 286.

Perhaps by the Aegisthus Painter. For the ornament, cf. the rims of two calyx-kraters: Vienna 1102 (ARV2 504, 5; Addenda 252) and Bologna 288 (ARV2 504, 6). For the drapery, the best parallel appears to be Florence 3994 (ARV2 505, 18).