Ca. 320 AD. A huge and beautiful red figure Apulian amphora. On one side is a seated, a flowering plant in an Ionic naiskos, a small temple often applied as a motif in ancient funerary art. On the reverse the "Lady of Fashion". The female head is illustrated facing left and adorned with a radiate stephane, ribbon sakkos, necklace and earrings. There are large palmettes on the sides and the back is covered with innumerable wreaths. The style of the profile female head on the reverse is close to those of the Painter of the Potenza Plates, a painter associated with the Stoke-on-Trent and Kantharos Groups. See pl. CVI,2 in Trendall and Cambitoglou, Second Supplement to the Red-figured Vases of Apulia. This piece has been precisely dated by means of a Thermo Luminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla, an independent German Laboratory. The samples collected date the piece to the period reflected in its style, whilst also showing no modern trace elements. The TL certificate with its full report will accompany this lot.Size: L:610mm / W:240mm; 5.45kgProvenance: 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.