A South Italian red-figure pottery squat lekythos, by the Meer Painter, showing two figures, a nude youth standing with left leg resting on a rock, leaning against a staff and holding a strigil in his left hand, a woman with flowing drapery moves towards him bouncing a ball with her right hand, palmette below the handle, repaired -- 6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high, 4th Century B.C.

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A South Italian red-figure pottery squat lekythos, by the Meer Painter, showing two figures, a nude youth standing with left leg resting on a rock, leaning against a staff and holding a strigil in his left hand, a woman with flowing drapery moves towards him bouncing a ball with her right hand, palmette below the handle, repaired -- 6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high, 4th Century B.C.

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