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Attic red figure lekythos.
A lekythos is a vessel used to store oil used for religious or funerary purposes.
The single handle on this vase is decorated with black slip on its top exposed surface and is left in the color of the clay on its underside.
Red figure lekythos oil vessel.
This lekythos is the cu art museum s only example of a vase decorated in the red figure technique.
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Crowded compositions with large statuesque figures are typical.
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In red figure pottery the figures are created in the original red orange of the clay.
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The last recorded examples of attic red figure pottery are from about 320 bce.
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The added colours now include blue green and others.
Frontal faces in attic vase painting of the archaic period.
Red figure pottery grew in popularity and by the early 5th century bce it had all but replaced black figure pottery as the predominant pottery type in athens.
This form is called lekythos a small pouring form commonly used in greek ritual practice and funerary rituals.
Carlsruhe painter greek active 475 450 b c 24 5 cm 9 5 8 in 71 ae 444.
Its distinctive black and red color and style of decoration likely indicate it is greek though where it comes from is a mystery.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.
Athena slaying giant body.
On this athenian red figure lekythos four nymphs tend the trees and the goddess artemis approaches in a chariot drawn by deer accompanied by a centaur.
Frontal faces in attic vase painting of the archaic period.
The final decades of attic red figure vase painting are dominated by the kerch style.
This style current between 370 and 330 bc combined the preceding rich and modest styles with a preponderance of the rich.