APULIAN RED-FIGURE LEKANIS WITH LADY OF FASHION Ca. 350 BC. A lidded lekanis with a wide, shallow body, two horizontal loop handles, and a flared foot. The lid is decorated in the red-figure technique with female heads in profile, each wearing a radiate stephane, sakkos, and beaded necklace, framed by large fan-shaped palmettes. The central knob is ring-shaped, encircled with alternating black and red bands. A continuous wave pattern runs along the edge of the lid above the join with the base. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 2021.40.31a, b; Christie's, Live Auction 5487, Antiquities, 29 April 2010, Lot 192. Size: 135mm x 100mm; Weight: 195g Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982.