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Pottery: red-figured pelike. Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. Above, (a) palmettes, egg-moulding, and pendants; (b) rosettes, and white and yellow spots. Under the handles, palmettes; below, all round, maeander and chequer. (a) Toilet-scene: In the centre is a female figure seated on a four-legged stool to right, with feet on a footstool; she has long curls, sphendone and beaded fillet, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation over lower limbs, and white sandals, in left hand a mirror into which she looks. Behind her is a female figure with curly hair, beaded fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation on left arm, and sandals, in right hand a fluted phiale, in left a fan; before her is a taenia. Before the first figure is a youth turned to the front, leaning against a white laver on a fluted stem; in the laver is a lyre painted white, and on the right of it, an embroidered taenia. The youth has a beaded fillet, endromides with a row of buttons, chlamys over left arm, in right hand a wreath of large flowers, in left a knotted staff, strigil, and aryballos suspended by a string. Above the female figure is Eros hovering to left, with hair gathered under an embroidered open cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, strings of beads round right shoulder and left thigh, anklets, and sandals; he holds out an embroidered taenia in both hands. On a higher level on each side of the scene is a seated female figure; the one on the left looks to right and has an embroidered open cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton with an embroidered seam down the front, and sandals, in right hand a phiale and embroidered taenia, in left a fan, yellow with black dots. The other is seated on an Ionic capital to left; she is attired as the first, and holds up in right hand a cista ornamented with maeander; above the first is a ball. The ground-lines are indicated. (b) A female figure seated to left on an Ionic capital, fluted, with maeander on the abacus; she has curly hair gathered under an open embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation over knees, and sandals; in left hand a fluted phiale, and below her, another phiale. She turns to a youth on the right, who addresses her, with hands extended, in right a fruit, in left a wreath and staff nearly obliterated; he has curly hair, and drapery over left arm; behind him is an embroidered taenia. On the left is a female figure to right, with hair in a bunch behind, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton and apoptygma fastened on the shoulders, and sandals, her girdle ends in rings and a clasp. She holds up a large mirror in right hand, and a ball in left; behind her is an embroidered taenia, and above, a rosette. Above is Eros hovering to right, with hair in a bunch under an open beaded cap, necklace, bracelets, strings of beads round body and right thigh, anklets, and sandals; he holds up a large basket ornamented with volutes in both hands; before him, a phiale, and a swan to left spreading its wings. Ground-lines indicated as usual.
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