Ca. 400-300 BC. Apulian. A beautiful terracotta oinochoe (wine jug) with a round conical foot with fillet, trefoil lip, and upturned handle. The body is decorated with a red-figure female head in left profile, her hair tied back in a sakkos, wearing a necklace and long earrings; palmette panels complete the body's decoration. The neck has white vertical linear decoration. Excellent condition. Oinochoai are perhaps one of the most common pottery types in the ancient world. Through literary sources and artistic representations, it is known that the oinochoe was used for ladling and pouring wine. For instance, Euripides (Eur. Tr. 820 ff.) says that Ganymede filled the kylikes (wine cups) of Zeus with golden oinochoai. Size: L:235mm / W:90mm ; 277g. Provenance: From the private collection of a Kent gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed before 2000 on the UK /European art markets.