An Apulian Red-figured Pelike, attributed to the Iliupersis Painter, circa 375-350 B.C.

painted in front with a youth offering a fillet to a seated woman playing the harp, a hydria at her feet, the couple flanked by a woman holding a patera and another a palm branch, the register above with Eros offering a duck to a seated woman holding a fan and wreath, and on the reverse with a woman holding a fillet and crowning a seated youth holding a patera and two spears, a woman observing the scene, Eros flying and juggling above, finely painted elaborate linked palmettes in each handle zone.

European private collection, early 20th Century or earlier (based on patina)
Ernest Ohly (1948-2000), Berkeley Galleries, London, acquired prior to the gallery's closing in 1977

Arthur D. Trendall and Alexander Cambitoglou, First supplement to The Red-figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1983, Chapter 8, no. 22