An Apulian Red-figured Amphora, attributed to the Patera Painter, circa 350-330 B.C.

decorated in the upper register with a woman holding a fan and oinochoe, a seated woman, a youth in Phrygian costume with phiale, cista, and oinochoe leaning on a basin, and a woman with a mirror, and in the lower register with a seated woman holding a fan between a woman with kalathos and a nude youth with cista, oinochoe, and branch, a female head flanked by floral motifs on the shoulder, the other side painted in the upper register with a seated youth holding a dish of cakes and situla between a woman with cista and situla and a woman holding a cista and phiale, and in the lower register with two seated women flanking a stele, each holding a cista, three linked palmettes on the shoulder, a white-painted floral wreath around the mouth, the details in added red, white, and yellow.

Christie's, London, October 19th, 1970, no. 63, illus.
acquired in London in 1974

A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 733, 23/47, pl. 271, 2 and 4

Very good, repaired across mid-body, a few minute areas of restoration and inpainting along otherwise very clean breakline, hairline crack across shoulder, one handle repaired, foot repaired and one-third restored
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One of the figures has a diminutive finely painted sketch of a human face on the body.