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Vase, earthware, Ancient Greek pelike-form, standing on a spreading 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, to either side of the main body winged cupid-like figures recline against a pile of draperies with a bow besides them and an elongated egg and dart border below, an elongated egg and dart border to the shoulder, a running chevron border to the rim.