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An Apulian red-figure Pelike, circa fourth century B.C. the A…
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Melbourne
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21-Mar-2015
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An Apulian red-figure Pelike, circa fourth century B.C. the A side a depicting a richly dressed and ornamented dancing maenad, holding a thrysus and a large ribboned tympanum, with a sash, ivy and rosettes in the field, side B depicting a richly dressed and ornamented seated female figure to the left, holding a phiale and a xylophone, facing to the right a standing winged Eros wearing jewellery and holding a wreath and arrows side a with a band of laurel at the neck and side B with a band of palmettes, each scene enlivened with white and ochre paint, with a meander and saltire squares baseline, a ring of strokes around the base of the handles with palmettes below, elsewhere reserved, (losses to surface), 24.9 cm high Provenance: ex Graham Geddes collection; ex Haley's 2003
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Antiquities: Greek