Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha 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 as late as the 2nd century bc.
Attic black figure lekythos.
Body carries image of male figure reclining on a couch beneath a grape arbor.
Taleides painter greek attic amasis greek attic active 560 520 b c 18 3 cm 7 3 16 in 76 ae 48.
An attic black figure lekythos decorated with a warrior departing from a seated figure and two attendants.
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Attic attica greece black figure lekythos greek pottery vessel 5th century bc.
A female figure is seated on the other side of a vine and plays the double flute or aulos.
This example is decorated in the so called black figure technique.
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Some incisions made with a point before the firing process indicate details of the anatomy and of the clothing.
Many details now partially faded were highlighted in purple or white paint.
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6 1 2 in 16 4 cm from an ex english private collection.
Small black figure lekythos with round base relatively squat body narrow neck and slightly flared mouth.
475 450 bc the body of the vase is decorated with palmettes black banding down towards the foot a ray pattern around the shoulder and the mouth dipped in black dimensions.
The lekythos is the archetypal funerary oil vase in attic pottery.
Culture greek athens cock group c.
Additions to attic black figure vase painters and to attic red figure vase painters 2nd edition.