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

painted with a woman seated by a stele and holding a xylophone, the woman at left carrying a box and a situla, the woman at right carrying a laurel branch and a mirror, a laurel branch with berries below the neck in front, tongues on the neck, an encircling wave pattern above the foot and on the overhanging rim, a large palmette flanked by volutes beneath the handles; details in added red, white, and yellow.

reportedly found in Greece in the 1940s
Swiss private collection, circa 1949
private collection, Oregon, by descent
Robert Dodge, Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, 2001
Midwestern private collection
Sotheby's, New York, June 7th, 2007, no. 69c, illus.

4-inch long section of foot restored, otherwise intact, surface slightly worn and encrusted, black-glaze flaking on the handles, losses to paint concentrated mostly in added white areas, very small chips on top of rim.
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For a related example in the Art Institute of Pasadena see A.D. Trendall, The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Oxford, 1967, p. 507, no. 502, pl. 199, fig. 1.