Small black figure lekythos with round base relatively squat body narrow neck and slightly flared mouth.
Attic black figure lekythos.
Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases it was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries bc although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century bc.
Culture greek athens cock group c.
Hastily drawn meander borders scene at top.
The lekythos is the archetypal funerary oil vase in attic pottery.
6 1 2 in 16 4 cm from an ex english private collection.
475 450 bc the body of the vase is decorated with palmettes black banding down towards the foot a ray pattern around the shoulder and the mouth dipped in black dimensions.
The shoulder of the lekythos is decorated with a cockerel between two ivy leaves.
Von bothmer dietrich and alan l.
This example is decorated in the so called black figure technique.
Body carries image of male figure reclining on a couch beneath a grape arbor.
An attic black figure lekythos decorated with a warrior departing from a seated figure and two attendants.
A female figure is seated on the other side of a vine and plays the double flute or aulos.
Some incisions made with a point before the firing process indicate details of the anatomy and of the clothing.
Many details now partially faded were highlighted in purple or white paint.
New evidence on the mechanics of loom weights american journal of archaeology 85 1.
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Taleides painter greek attic amasis greek attic active 560 520 b c 18 3 cm 7 3 16 in 76 ae 48.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.