AN APULIAN POTTERY PELIKE CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
39cm x 21cm
One side depicts a young man and woman ...

AN APULIAN POTTERY PELIKE CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
39cm x 21cm
One side depicts a young man and woman to either side of a low funerary altar with a figure of eros above between them.
The other side depictings a figure of a youth seated on rocks, a young woman before him, holding a tambourine.
Elaborate palmettes under and to either side of the handles, rosettes on the neck, meander ground line, the decoration enriched with touches of white paint.
Provenance: Purchased at Sotheby's, 'Antiquities', London, 14th December 1995, Lot 243.
Provenance: From the Collection of the late William Gladstone Stewart (1933-2017), host of television show 'Fifteen to One'.
Fifteen to One was a British general knowledge quiz show broadcast on Channel 4. It originally ran from 11 January 1988 to 19 December 2003 and had a reputation for being one of the toughest quizzes on TV. Throughout the show's original run, it was presented and produced by William G. Stewart. Thousands of contestants appeared on the programme, which had very little of the chatting between host and contestants that is often a feature of other television quiz shows.
The series prize tended to be a classical artefact (for example an ancient Greek vase). Prizes were occasionally valued at several million pounds by archaeologists.