ATTRIBUTED TO THE BALTIMORE PAINTER, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

The decoration is divided into two zones by a central band of complex meander. On the shoulders is a nuptial gathering. The bride, sitting on an elaborate chair, shelters from the sun under a fringed parasol. She is shown unveiling herself to the prospective groom, a lightly draped youth who is leaning on the edge of a sizeable laver. Attending them are three draped women. In the lower register is a central naiskos containing acanthus-lily complexes, with four draped women bearing gifts on either side.
For the bridal scene on the shoulder, compare the similar grouping of Paris and Helen on a hydria by the Baltimore Painter in Mattinata (see A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, Vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 871, no. 27/55, pls. 333, 3 and 333, 1).