Apulian Red-Figure Pelike, c.340-320 BC (ceramic)

Group of the Copenhagen Dancer. The obverse with Aphrodite in a chariot drawn by two winged Erotes, possibly Pothos and Himeros, one holding a thymiatherion in his left hand and touching the wrist of Aphrodite with his right, the other holding a phiale in one hand, and adding incense to the thymiaterion with the other, Aphrodite wearing a peplos that exposes her right side, holding a fillet in each hand, a youthful couple seated below, likely a bride and groom, the youth to the right, wearing a himation that exposes his torso, holding a laurel branch and lyre in one hand, and resting his elbow on the hand of his bride before him, his gaze angled up towards the approaching goddess, the bride in a chiton and himation, her face three-quarter frontal, laurel and flowering plants in the field, bands of palmettes and lotus buds, ovolo, and beach-nut pendants above; the reverse with a youth seated between two draped females, the youth nude but for a chlamys over his thighs, his long hair bound in a fillet, holding a phiale and a wreath, a nude spread-winged Eros above with a phiale and a wreath, flowers, rosettes and phialai in the field; a band of laurel centered by a rosette above; a band of meander with dotted crossed squared encircling below, palmette complexes below the handles, details in added white and yellow.