A PAIR OF APULIAN RED-FIGURE NECK AMPHORAI

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A PAIR OF APULIAN RED-FIGURE NECK AMPHORAI
attributed to the Haifa Painter
Circa 330-320 B.C.

One with, on one side, a draped female seated on a rock, wearing a peplos and sakkos, a branch in her right hand, a bunch of grapes in her left, looking right at a standing nude youth, his left foot raised on a rock, a mantle and branch in his left hand, a patera in his right, the reverse with two draped youths, the left figure holding a staff; the other, on one side, with a winged nude Eros seated on a rock, supporting a box in his left hand and extending a patera in his right hand to the draped female standing to his left, a bunch of grapes in her left hand, a mirror in her right, with rosettes and fillets between the figures and a window above Eros, the reverse with two draped males holding staffs, both vessels with palmettes and laurel below the handles, a band of wave below the scene, rays on the neck surmounted by a band of laurel on one, a band of palmettes on the other, both intact, 17 1/2in. (44.5cm.) high for the largest (2)