Two Polychrome Terracotta Doves, Canosa, late 4th/3rd Century B.C.

each with short flaring tail, folded wings, and diminutive head, and wearing a painted necklace with central cross-shaped pendant and hanging undulating ribbons, one dove with longitudinally ribbed back, the back of the other painted with an elaborate red-figured volute krater of South Italian form, the details in red pigment over a layer of white gesso, each dove with a hole underneath for attachment to the handle of a vase.

Nicholas Koutoulakis, circa 1974

Cf. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Germany, fasc. 29: E. Rohde, Gotha, Schlossmuseum, vol. 2, Berlin, 1968, p. 39, pl. 86, 3-5, and Mildenberg Collection, nos. 151-152 (Christie's, London, October 26th, 2004, no. 86).