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Vase, earthware, ancient Greek pelike-form, standing on a spreading stepped foot with bulbous body, sloping shoulder and broad turned-over rim, twin plain upright handles; the decoration reserved against a black enamel ground, so that the red earthenware body is revealed, this then transfer-printed in black with to one side of the body a group of two standing fermale figures and a male and a female figure seated on stools, all clad in flowing draperies with a basket of wreaths besides them, to the other side of the body two figures clad in billowing draperies in a chariot pulled by four horses, palmette border to the shoulder, scrolling tendril border to the rim, egg and dart border to the lip.