An Etrusco-Campanian Red-figured Bell Krater, late 4th Century B.C.

painted on one side with three slender draped men facing right, and on the other with a man playing the pipes and another figure, a wreath under the rim, palmettes and scrolls in the handle areas.

D.C. Ashley, Union Street, San Francisco, inv. no. A123, September 25, 1968

Body neatly repaired from mostly large fragments, foot poorly repaired and with areas of restoration where the foot meets the stem, a large restoration on one side of the foot; the decoration is over the glaze rather than reserved, and extensive repainting is possible.
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For a related example cf. CVA (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum), Naples 3, IV E, pl. 53:7 and 9.