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  2. Wild Goat Style - Wikipedia

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    The style owes its name to the predominant motif found on such vases: friezes of goats. The style developed the technique introduced during the Orientalizing period of rendering the heads of figures in outline by applying it to the whole of a figure. Thus where previously an image was a silhouette, the Wild Goat style allowed a greater ...

  3. White-ground technique - Wikipedia

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    A second form is monochrome silhouette drawing. Images are not created from reservation (paint-free areas) and painted internal detail (as in red-figure vase painting), but from drawn outlines and painted internal detail. This style is used since the end of the 6th century BC, especially on cups, alabastra and lekythoi.

  4. Wucai - Wikipedia

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    Wucai Goldfish Vase from the Jiajing period (1521–67) of the Ming dynasty Wucai jar with the Eight Immortals, Wanli reign, 1573–1620. Wucai (五彩, "Five colours", "Wuts'ai" in Wade-Giles) is a style of decorating white Chinese porcelain in a limited range of colours.

  5. Outline of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek vase painting. Bilingual vase painting; Black-figure pottery; Red-figure pottery; White ground technique; Greek terracotta figurines. Tanagra figurine; Hellenistic glass; Sculpture in ancient Greece. Severe style; Hellenistic art; Sport in ancient Greek art; Theatre of ancient Greece. Chorus of the elderly in classical Greek drama ...

  6. Oenochoe - Wikipedia

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    An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe (Ancient Greek: οἰνοχόη; from Ancient Greek: οἶνος, oînos, "wine", and Ancient Greek: χέω, khéō, lit. ' I pour ...

  7. Lèbes gamikòs - Wikipedia

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    The lèbes gamikòs or "nuptial lebes" (pl.: lèbetes gamikòi) is a form of ancient Greek pottery used in marriage ceremonies (literally, it means marriage vase). [1] [2] It was probably used in the ritual sprinkling of the bride with water before the wedding. In form, it has a large bowl-like body and a stand that can be long or short.

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  9. Dionysus Cup - Wikipedia

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    Inside of the cup. The Dionysus Cup is the modern name for one of the best known works of ancient Greek vase painting, a kylix (drinking cup) dating to 540–530 BC. It is one of the masterpieces of the Attic black-figure potter Exekias and one of the most significant works in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich.