Circa 400 BC A beautiful Greek southern Italian skyphos from the region of Apulia, portraying typical futuristic decoration of Gnathian style. The vessel is decorated with the colours red, white, and yellow over the top of a glossy, black background. The obverse side features a stylised vine pattern consisting of grapes, leaves and tendrils, with multiple bands of geometric and floral motifs above. The reverse displays a simple frame of two bands with circular motifs either sidepleting the design. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number: 1971.11.9. Size: L:40mm / W:133mm; 125g Provenance: Property of a central London Gallery; formerly in a South English estate collection; acquired in the 1990s from Andre de Munter, Brussels, Belgium; previously in an old European collection.