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  1. Overview

    Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and … See more

    Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

    • 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. Styles such as West Slope Ware were characteristic of the subsequent Hellenistic period, which saw vase painting's decline. See more

    Rediscovery and scholarship

    The interest in Greek art lagged behind the revival of classical scholarship during the Renaissance and was revived in the academic circle surrounding Nicolas Poussin in Rome in the 1630s. Though modest coll… See more

    Uses and types

    The names we use for Greek vase shapes are often a matter of convention rather than historical fact. A few do illustrate their own use or are labeled with their original names, while others are the result of early archaeologi… See more

    Clay

    The few ways that clay pottery can be damaged is by being broken, being abraded or by coming in contact with fire. The process of making a pot and firing it is fairly simple. The first thing a potter needs is … See more

    Development of pottery painting

    Greek pottery goes back to the Stone Age, such as those found in Sesklo and Dimini.
    More elaborate painting on Greek pottery goes back to the Minoan pottery and Mycenaean pottery of the Bronze Age, some later … See more

    Inscriptions

    Inscriptions on Greek pottery are of two kinds; the incised (the earliest of which are contemporary with the beginnings of the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC), and the painted, which only begin to appear a century late… See more

    Figurines

    Greek terracotta figurines were another important type of pottery, initially mostly religious, but increasingly representing purely decorative subjects. The so-called Tanagra figurines, in fact made elsewhere as well, ar… See more

     
  1. Ancient Greek Vases and Pottery: Key Types, Motifs and Value