An Apulian Red-figured Pelike, attributed to the Hoppin Painter , circa 375-350 BC.

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Description

An Apulian Red-figured Pelike, attributed to the Hoppin Painter
Height 17 in. 43.2 cm.

painted with a woman standing in an elevated position and holding a wreath and cista, and flanked by a nude youth holding a strigil at left and another nude youth holding a stick and wreath at right, the reverse with three draped youths on either side of a stele; details in added white and yellow.

Provenance

Merrin Gallery, prior to 1991

Literature

A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, Part I, London, 1991, p. 25, 5/67a