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With those caveats, the names of Greek vases are fairly well settled, even if such names are a matter of convention rather than historical fact. The following vases are mostly Attic, from the 5th and 6th centuries, and follow the Beazley naming convention. Many shapes derive from metal vessels, especially in silver, which survive in far smaller ...
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.
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Terracotta figurines are a wide range of small figurines made throughout the time span of Ancient Greece, and one of the main types of Ancient Greek pottery. Early figures are typically religious, modelled by hand, and often found in large numbers at religious sites, left as votive offerings.
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 ...
Ancient Greek pot shapes (1 C, 53 P) C. ... Vases (4 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Pottery shapes" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) 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 in the 2nd century BC.