A Red-figured Hydria, attributed to the APZ painter, Campanian Greece, circa 330-300 B.C.

painted with a woman seated by a stele and holding a xylophone, the woman on the left carrying a box and a situla, the woman on the right carrying a laurel branch and a mirror, details in added red, white, and yellow

Reportdly found in Greece in the 1940's
Swiss private collection, 1949
Private collection, Oregon, by descent
Robert Dodge, Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, 2001
Midwestern private collection
Sotheby's, New York, June 7th 2007, lot 69c
Private collection, Ohio (Sotheby's, New York, June 11th 2010, lot 28)

4-inch long section of foot restored. Surface slightly worn and encrusted. Black glaze flaking on handles. Losses to paint concentrated mostly in areas of added white. Small chips on top of rim. Pied restauré (bouchage) sur 10 cm. Une anse réparée. Surface légèrement usée et incrustée. Vernis noir écaillé sur les anses. Petites ébréchures sur les bord. Manques aux ajouts de couleur, principalement au blanc.
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For a similar example from the same hand, see A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, p. 507, no. 502, pl. 199, fig. 1.