IMPORTANT APULIAN PHIALE TO RED FIGURES DATE: 320-300 BC. MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE: pinkish figulina clay, shiny black paint; white and yellow overpainting, modeled by fast lathe and mold. Large phiale with horizontal brim with raised rim, truncated cone-shaped bowl, molded echinus foot, ribbon handles surmounted by circular apophysis, set horizontally on the lip between two other apophyses. ADDITIONAL DECORATION: entirely painted with the exception of the upper part of the rim and of the connection with the foot. DECORATION: Interior of the basin decorated with a floral garland which is followed by a central circular reserve with a large figure of a knight standing and facing right, with a crown on his hair, a spear in his left hand in the act of holding his horse by the halter. The young man is wearing a short chiton stopped at the waist by a belt, shoes and an armilla on the left ankle. In front of him a naked androgynous hero, with radiated stephane, shoes and armilla, also holds by the halter the large horse gradient to the right flanking the rider. PRODUCTION: Apulian pottery with red figures, workshop of the Painter of the Elmo. STATE OF CONSERVATION: recomposed from fragments with small gaps DIMENSIONS: h. cm 11, diam. cm 36 ORIGIN: private collection, Bari CFR.: D.Trendall, A. Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia II, Oxford 1982 The lot, according to Italian law, is not exportable / This lot, according to Italian law, can not be exported