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As the culture recovered Sub-Mycenaean pottery finally blended into the Protogeometric style, which begins Ancient Greek pottery proper. [citation needed] The rise of vase painting saw increasing decoration. Geometric art in Greek pottery was contiguous with the late Dark Age and early Archaic Greece, which saw the rise of the Orientalizing period.
Greek pottery may be divided into four broad categories, given here with common types: [1] storage and transport vessels, including the amphora, pithos, pelike, hydria, stamnos, pyxis, mixing vessels, mainly for symposia or male drinking parties, including the krater, dinos, and kyathos,
Mycenaean pottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. It encompassed a variety of styles and forms including the stirrup jar . The term "Mycenaean" comes from the site Mycenae , and was first applied by Heinrich Schliemann .
At a Greek symposium, kraters were placed in the center of the room.They were quite large, so they were not easily portable when filled. Thus, the wine-water mixture would be withdrawn from the krater with other vessels, such as a kyathos (pl.: kyathoi), an amphora (pl.: amphorai), [1] or a kylix (pl.: kylikes). [1]
Scholars of ancient Greek pottery (20 P) Ancient Greek vase-painting styles (49 P) V. Ancient Greek vases (3 C) Pages in category "Ancient Greek pottery"
A kantharos (/ ˈ k æ n θ ə ˌ r ɒ s /; Ancient Greek: κάνθαρος) or cantharus (/ ˈ k æ n θ ə r ə s /) is a type of ancient Greek cup used for drinking. Although almost all surviving examples are in Greek pottery, the shape, like many Greek vessel types, probably originates in metalwork. In its iconic "Type A" form, it is ...
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Procession of men, kylix by the Triptolemos Painter, circa 480 BC. Paris: Louvre The wedding of Thetis, pyxis by the Wedding Painter, circa 470/460 BC. Paris: Louvre. Red-figure pottery (Ancient Greek: ἐρυθρόμορφα, romanized: erythrómorpha) is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the ...