Beginning about 610 b c vase painters showed silhouettes in black slip glaze on the red surface of the clay.
Archaic attic black figure pottery.
Between the beginning of the sixth and the end of the fourth century b c black and red figure techniques were used in athens to decorate fine pottery while simpler undecorated wares fulfilled everyday household purposes.
Greek pottery during this period was treasured throughout the mediterranean.
The earliest stylistic period is the geometric lasting from about 1000 to 700 bce this period is further broken down into a proto geometric transition from mycenaean forms.
Ancient greek black figure pottery named after the colour of the depictions on the pottery was first produced in corinth c.
The finishing details were incised into the black.
700 bce and continued to be popular until the advent of red figure pottery c.
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Greece archaic pottery 800 480 b c archaic pottery.
Black figure pottery type of greek pottery that originated in corinth c.
700 bce and then adopted by pottery painters in attica where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 bce and allow athens to dominate the mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.
The pottery produced in archaic and classical greece included at first black figure pottery yet other styles emerged such as red figure pottery and the white ground technique.
Remnants of greek vases have been found in africa spain france southern russia and all over asia minor.
Laconia was a third albeit minor producer of the style in the.
Black figure attic cylix with athena between 2 warriors.
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In this period the surface of the pot was completely covered with a network of fine patterns in which circles and arcs predominate.
Styles such as west slope ware were characteristic of the subsequent hellenistic period which saw vase painting s decline.
Steven zucker in front of an attic black figure amphora by exekias potter and painter archaic period c.
Greek pottery developed from a mycenaean tradition borrowing both pot forms and decoration.
Ancient greek vase production and the black figure technique our mission is to provide a free world class education to anyone anywhere.
With both techniques the potter first shaped the vessel on a wheel.
It was used to store oil wine or grain.