A Lucanian red-figure trefoil-lipped oinochoe

LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A Lucanian red-figure trefoil-lipped oinochoe
Late 5th Century B.C.
Showing Eros flying to the left holding a wreath in his left hand, hair bound in a fillet, a palmette and scrolling tendrils under the handle, tongued frieze around the neck, repaired with slight restoration at rim; and an Apulian shallow plate, the tondo decorated with a profile head of a female, her hair tied in a sakkos, wearing a double string of beads, late 4th/early 3rd Century B.C.
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high and 6¾ in. (17.3 cm.) diam. respectively (2)

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