Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.
Attic black figure lekythos.
Attic attica greece black figure lekythos greek pottery vessel 5th century bc.
This example is decorated in the so called black figure technique.
The shoulder of the lekythos is decorated with a cockerel between two ivy leaves.
Taleides painter greek attic amasis greek attic active 560 520 b c 18 3 cm 7 3 16 in 76 ae 48.
An attic black figure lekythos decorated with a warrior departing from a seated figure and two attendants.
The warrior wears a corinthian crested helmet and carries a shield and spear with details added in purple.
A female figure is seated on the other side of a vine and plays the double flute or aulos.
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.
New evidence on the mechanics of loom weights american journal of archaeology 85 1.
Small black figure lekythos with round base relatively squat body narrow neck and slightly flared mouth.
The lekythos is the archetypal funerary oil vase in attic pottery.
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.
Body carries image of male figure reclining on a couch beneath a grape arbor.
6 1 2 in 16 4 cm from an ex english private collection.
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Hastily drawn meander borders scene at top.
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