APULIAN RED-FIGURE LEKANIS WITH CROWNED YOUTH Ca. 350 - 300 BC. A lekanis that is covered in black glaze and decorated with gorgeous red-figure and fugitive white pigment details. The base presents with a flared foot beneath a hemispherical body with vertical stripes adorning the rim and a pair of parabolic handles protruding from the side walls. The wide, bell-shaped lid bears a register of cresting waves along the exterior rim and a radiating flower atop the discoid handle. Two distinguished heads, a ‘lady of fashion’ characters adorn the top of the lid, both shown in profile and wearing delicate stephane brought forth in fugitive white pigment and kekryphalos hairstyles bound in the back and a head of a youth crowned with laurel crown. The grounds surrounding the women are filled with abstract foliate forms and flowers, and a grand pair of palmettes separate the two luxurious ladies. Size: 100mm x 160mm; Weight: 240g. Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995.