The vase is illustrated by a scene from the Eleusinian Mysteries, showing five characters on its side: Persephone, Demeter, Dionysus, Triptolemus, and a maenad.

Just to the left, her mother Demeter is also draped with a soft pink chiton, adorned with bracelets, a brooch or clasp, earrings and a golden diadem decorated with bosses and rays.

To the right of Persephone stands Dionysus, recognizable by his traditional attribute, the thyrse: a stick surrounded by leaves, surmounted by a pine cone and here adorned with pink stripes, which he holds in his left hand.

The god of vines and wine is crowned with golden ivy, he also had a pink tint, although today its color is closer to that of the red figures.

The vase does not tell an episode of the myth itself, but the characters present evoke the cycle of the seasons and the spring rebirth, when Persephone joins her mother Demeter, goddess of the Earth after the winter spent in the underworld with her husband Hades.