An Apulian Black-glazed Hydria, 4th Century B.C.

with reeded body, overhanging rim carved with egg-and-dart, and ribbed handles with knobbed central collar, the body encircled by a band painted with a central disk flanked by scrolling acanthus tendrills, the neck decorated with a necklace of festooned tear-shaped pendants, the details in added yellow and white.

Dr. Albert Hugh Lloyd (d. 1936), Christ's College, Cambridge
Spink & Son, Ltd., London, prior to 1942
William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, California
The Hearst Corporation (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Works of Art, Furniture & Architectural Elements Collected by the Late William Randolph Hearst, April 5th-6th, 1963, no. 40)
the Estate of Lillian Rojtman Berkman (Sotheby's, New York, December 9th, 2004, no. 221, illus.)

Repaired from several fragments with inpainting along the breaklines and probable small areas of restoration, one handle amateurishly repaired most of the surface of the body has been coated in shellac, several shallow chips along the base
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