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  2. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting. Sparks, NV: Falcon Hill Press, 1995. Mitchell, Alexandre G. Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Noble, Joseph Veach. The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1965. Oakley, John Howard. The Greek Vase: Art of the Storyteller ...

  3. Euphronios Krater - Wikipedia

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    The Euphronios Krater stands 45.7 cm (18 inches) in height and has a diameter of 55.1 cm (21.7 inches). It can hold about 45 L (12 gallons). The style of the vase is red-figure pottery, in which figure outlines, details, and the background are painted with an opaque black slip while the figures themselves are left in the color of the unpainted terracotta ceramic clay.

  4. Ancient Greek funerary vases - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek funerary vases are decorative grave markers made in ancient Greece that were designed to resemble liquid-holding vessels. These decorated vases were placed on grave sites as a mark of elite status. There are many types of funerary vases, such as amphorae, kraters, oinochoe, and kylix cups, among others.

  5. Two plundered ancient Greek vases are repatriated from ... - AOL

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    Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians' graves more than 2,000 years ago, including one with an emotional family scene, have been returned to Greece from Switzerland. Greece's ...

  6. Psykter - Wikipedia

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    A psykter (in Greek ψυκτήρ, "cooler") is a type of Greek vase that is characterized by a bulbous body set on a high, narrow foot. It was used as a wine cooler, and specifically as part of the elite sympotic set in the ancient Greek symposium.

  7. Conservation and restoration of ancient Greek pottery

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    The Affecter Amphora, in the collection of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, is a case study for the history of conservation of Greek vases. The black figured Attic (meaning from Athens region) vessel was created around 540 BCE by a well-documented vase painter known as the Affecter Painter .

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