10 Items Tagged "Vase"
This vase depicts animals, like rabbits and lions, and on the top a few harpies in a non-narrative way. The solid lines on the vase are used to…
Herakles and Pholus Black figured Hydria 520- 510 BC On this hydria vase is a black figured centaur and man. The man is Herakles and the centaur is…
This piece is called a bell krater and it is made out of terracotta. It is painted in the attic red-figure style and is attributed to Polion, an…
Class Notes – Early 7th cent – Unglazed terracotta? – Contrast between black, almost silhouette, figures, and the gold/yellow back ground – Detailed pattern in border – Black…
Black figure This black-figure aryballos (oil container), held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a supporting image for the red-figure bell krater. The decoration on black figure…
This is a calyx-krater vase. I show this to contrast with the other image of the bell-krater vase. (Krater comes from the Greek word “to mix” – these…
This is also a black glazed terra cotta piece from the same time period that also relates to the serving of wine. It is called an oinochoe (Ancient…
This is a supporting image of Hercules and Pholus. This is the type of vase that the illustrating was on. A hydria vase is the most common vase,…
This piece is an amphoriskos, a tall terra-cotta vase glazed in black, standing only 7” high and 3 ¼” wide. It has a bird head on the neck…
This is a black figure narrative on a clay vase. There are two figures, a man and a centaur, standing by a well/table. The centaur is holding a…