The tondo is decorated with an erotic scene with a standing satyr embracing a hetaera, both are nude save for their sandals, in the field behind the satyr a calyx krater rests on rocky ground, at the hetaera’s right foot a rock, encircled within a band of meander separated by two checkered squares; tongue decoration on the exterior. Rare example of the expressive late Etruscan vase painting.
Note
A number of Etruscan red-figure kylikes can be attributed to the so-called Clusium Group. (cf. Leonore Stege, Die Kunst der Etrusker. Interversa Hamburg, Ausstellung Aug.-Oct. 1981, no. 102 and Holger Termer, Kunst der Antike 2, Hamburg, Ausstellung Nov.-Dec. 1980, no. 57). The anonymous painters of the group are so called because their workshop appears to have been centred around Chiusi. Their main specialisation were cups, duck askoi and kantharoi. Late red-figure kylikes are extremely rare; J.D. Beazley knows only eight specimens of which some are only known from fragments (J.D. Beazley, Etruscan Vase Painting, 143, 18-19; 165,5; 174,1-2)
