19¹⁄₂ in. (49.5 cm.) high

Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1974, lot 122.

A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, vol. 1, Oxford, 1978, p. 375, no. 121, pl. 125, no. 3.
M.E. Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia, Richmond, 1982, pp. 125-126, no. 47.
K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 60, no. 33.
"Inland Empire Scene," The Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1989, part v, p. A.
"Art Seen," Élan, June 1989, p. 10.
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1991, p. 92.

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Tulsa, The Philbrook Art Center; The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Art of South Italy: Vases From Magna Graecia, 12 May 1982-10 April 1983.
San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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An unusual detail is the inclusion of a black-figured amphora with a fillet around its neck below the right handle. The same also appears on another vase by this painter in the British Museum (no. 122 in Trendall and Cambitoglou, 1978, op. cit.). As Hamma observes (op. cit.), this hydria was made with an intentional hole through its foot, likely indicating its use in a ritual involving poured libations.