An Apulian Red-figured Volute Krater, attributed to the Painter of Berlin F3383, circa 350-320 B.C.

decorated in front with a flowering plant within a naiskos flanked by a woman holding a ball on the left and a nude youth with mirror and staff on the right, a profile head of a woman flanked by flowers and scrolling tendrils on the neck in front, the reverse painted with two draped youths, one with a staff, the other with a diptych, a mask on each side of both voluted handles, duck heads flanking the handles, the details in added red, white, and yellow.

Christie's, London, May 1st, 1974, no. 267, illus.

A.D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, vol. II, Oxford, 1982, p. 918, 28/63, pl. 355,1-2

losses to glaze overall, especially over and above foot , several areas of active flaking, perhaps due to salt damage, surface appears to need consolidation
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