Circa 300 BC A wheel-thrown vase with handles.This ritual krater was also used for drinking wine mixed with water at symposia.posed of a great egg-shaped body tapered on a circular base like a flared foot that is set off from the body by a groove.pleted with two handles on the sides placed between the shoulder and the mouth. The two big handles are in the form of volutes with gorgoneia volutes adorning the handles faces moulded in relief, the details painted with white and red. The obverse is decorated with a flowering plant inside of a naiskos, 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. The vase is also decorated with several registers of meanders typical of ancient Greek art, repeated geometric motifs and laurel leaves. There are large palmettes on the sides and the back is covered with innumerable wreaths. 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 apany this lot. Size: L:680mm / W:375mm; 7.8kg 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.